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El Cinco, San Juan, Puerto Rico
El Cinco is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico and a former barrio of the dissolved municipality of Río Piedras. As of the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 5,610 and a land area of 1.34 square miles (3.5 km2) resulting in a population density of 4,625.4/sq mi (1,785.9/km2). Geography El Cinco is surrounded by seven barrios: Gobernador Piñero, Monacillo Urbano, Monacillo, Cupey, Sabana Llana Sur, Río Piedras (pueblo) and Hato Rey Sur. Landmarks and historic sites This barrio is home to numerous sites listed in the US National Register of Historic Places. The historic Río Piedras Aqueduct, also known as the San Juan Historic Aqueduct, is an old aqueduct and water filtration plant that dates from 1846. The site has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 2007. Other historic sites located in El Cinco are the Río Piedras Bridge, shared with Hato Rey Sur and dating from 1853, the Rum Pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrios Of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan is divided into 18 Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce). Former municipality of Río Piedras *Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caimito *Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cupey (formerly two barrios: Cupey Alto and Cupey Bajo) *El Cinco, San Juan, Puerto Rico, El Cinco *Gobernador Piñero, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gobernador Piñero *Hato Rey Central :Hato Rey Central is divided into four subbarrios: :*Ciudad Nueva (Hato Rey), Ciudad Nueva :*Floral Park (Hato Rey), Floral Park :*Las Monjas (Hato Rey), Las Monjas :*Quintana (Hato Rey), Quintana *Hato Rey Norte :Hato Rey Norte is divided into four subbarrios: :*El Vedado (Hato Rey), El Vedado :*Eleanor Roos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pueblo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Pueblo (officially just Pueblo, unofficially downtown Río Piedras), is one of 18 Barrios of San Juan, Puerto Rico, barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras Pueblo is what used to be the urban center-Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrio (downtown district) of the former municipality of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Río Piedras until 1951, when the municipality of Rio Piedras was merged with the municipality of San Juan. Rio Piedras Pueblo is bounded to the west by Hato Rey Sur, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hato Rey Sur and El Cinco, San Juan, Puerto Rico, El Cinco, with Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Universidad barrio to the North, and with Sabana Llana Sur, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sabana Llana Sur barrio to the south and east. It is made up of 6 ''subbarrios'': Buen Consejo (Pueblo), Buen Consejo, Capetillo (Pueblo), Capetillo, Monte Rey (Pueblo), Monte Rey, Río Piedras Antiguo (Pueblo), Río Piedras Antiguo, Ubarri (Pueblo), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico Highway 176
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Puerto Rico Highway 176 (PR-176) is a main road in Cupey. It begins at its intersection with PR-175 near Carraízo Lake in Trujillo Alto and ends at PR-1 near downtown Río Piedras. Carretera PR-176, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.jpg, Southbound sign in Carraízo, Trujillo Alto Carretera PR-176, San Juan, Puerto Rico (3).jpg, Southbound sign in Cupey, San Juan Major intersections Related route Puerto Rico Highway 8176 (PR-8176) is a road parallel to PR-176 in Cupey. See also * 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering References External links Carretera 176, San Juan, Puerto Rico 176 Year 176 ( CLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Aper (or, less frequently, year 929 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 176 for this year ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico Highway 1
Puerto Rico Highway 1 (PR-1) is a highway in Puerto Rico that connects the city of Ponce to San Juan. Leaving Ponce, the road heads east and follows a somewhat parallel route along the southern coast of the island heading towards Salinas. At Salinas, the road turns north to cut through the Cordillera Central in its approach to San Juan. Before reaching San Juan, it climbs to make its way to the mountain town of Cayey and then it winds down into the city of Caguas on its final approach to San Juan. Route description PR-1 starts in Ponce and ends in San Juan. The route connects important cities such as Salinas, Cayey, and Caguas. In Ponce, PR-1 intersects PR-2 and PR-52. One of the major roads in Ponce that PR-1 does not intersect is PR-10, which is accessible via an alternate route ( PR-5506) through Mercedita Airport. A sign on PR-1 alerts drivers on where to get off to access PR-10. PR-1 passes through a small portion of the central town of Cidra, merely off the bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupey (Tren Urbano Station)
Cupey is a rapid transit station in San Juan agglomeration, Puerto Rico. It is located between Centro Médico and Río Piedras stations on the only line of the Tren Urbano system, in the El Cinco district of the city of San Juan. The station is named after the barrio of Cupey, located further south. The trial service ran in 2004, however, the regular service only started on 6 June 2005. Bus terminal The bus terminal is located western entrance to the station. * E30 (MU): Cupey TU station ''(through PR-52)'' – Caguas Pueblo (downtown) bus terminal * T7: Cupey TU station ''(through PR-3)'' – Carolina Pueblo (downtown) bus terminal * T9: Cupey TU station ''(through PR-35)'' – Old San Juan Covadonga bus terminal * 17: Cupey TU station – Centro Médico TU station – Piñero TU station * 18: Cupey TU station – Centro Médico TU station – Alturas de Cupey * 31: Cupey TU station – Emiliano Pol In addition to AMA services, the bus terminal also has connectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapid Transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT) or heavy rail, commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A grade separation, grade separated rapid transit line below ground surface through a tunnel can be regionally called a subway, tube, metro or underground. They are sometimes grade-separated on elevated railways, in which case some are referred to as el trains – short for "elevated" – or skytrains. Rapid transit systems are usually electric railway, electric railways, that unlike buses or trams operate on an exclusive right-of-way (transportation), right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles. Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated lines between metro station, stations typically using electric multiple units on railway tracks. Some systems use rubber-tyred metro, guided rubber tires, magnetic levitation (''maglev''), or monorail. The stations typica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tren Urbano
The ''Tren Urbano'' (English language, English: Urban Train) is a List of automated urban metro subway systems, automated rapid transit system serving the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area, main metropolitan area of Puerto Rico, specifically the capital Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, and the adjacent municipalities of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Guaynabo and Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Bayamón in the northeast of the Geography of Puerto Rico, main island. The Tren Urbano consists of 16 stations operating on of track along a single line. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The Tren Urbano complements other forms of public transportation services in the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area, San Juan metropolitan area such as the Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority, Metropolitan Bus Authority, the Cataño Ferry, taxis, and shuttles. The entire mass transportation system is operated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan Botanical Garden
The San Juan Botanical Garden, officially known as the Botanical Garden of the University of Puerto Rico, is located in the Caribbean city of San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico. This lush “urban garden” of native and exotic flora serves as a laboratory for the study, conservation and enrichment of plants, trees, flowers, grasses and many other plants. Seventy-five acres are landscaped and open to the general public as well as researchers. The entrance is located off the south side of the intersection of Highway 1 and Road 847 in Río Piedras. The “Bosque Urbano del Nuevo Milenio” ( Nuevo Milenio State Forest), a project for the conservation and growth of the urban forest, is on the eastern side of the Botanical Garden. Background The botanical garden, proposed in 1959, was endorsed by the Council of Higher Education of Puerto Rico on 12 September 1969. On the initiative of Arturo Roque and supported by the president of the university, Dr. Jaime Benítez, the Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Universidad de Puerto Rico;'' often shortened to UPR) is the main List of state and territorial universities in the United States, public university system in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a List of government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico, government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members. UPR has the largest and most diverse academic offerings in the commonwealth, with 472 academic programs of which 32 lead to a doctorate. History In 1900, at Fajardo, the ''Escuela Normal Industrial'' (normal school) was established as the first higher education center in Puerto Rico. Its initial enrollment was 20 students and 5 professors. The following year it was moved to Río Piedras. On March 12, 1903, the legislature authorized founding of the University of Puerto Rico, and that day the "Escuela Normal" wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hato Rey Sur
Hato Rey Sur is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is one of three barrios formerly known as Hato Rey. Hato Rey Sur was a barrio of the former municipality of Rio Piedras, before it was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. Following the annexation of Rio Piedras, the city of San Juan, and its surrounding area now including Rio Piedras, quadrupled its former size. Demographics In 2020, Hato Rey Sur had a population of 8,863 residents.Subbarrios The barrio of Hato Rey Sur is further subdivided into four “subbarrios".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Río Piedras Bridge
The Río Piedras Bridge (Spanish: ''Puente de Río Piedras'') or Piedras River Bridge (''Puente del Río Piedras''), also designated as Bridge #3, is a historic 19th-century barrel vault bridge located in the former town of Río Piedras, today part of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that spans across the Piedras River. The bridge was built in 1853 as part of the development of the Carretera Central that linked San Juan to Ponce, making it the oldest still-existing bridge of said route. Today the bridge is still stable and usable, and it can be found near the entrance of the University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000, and it is considered to be the best-preserved example of a Spanish masonry arch bridge anywhere in Puerto Rico and the United States. Gallery File:Puente Rio Piedras - San Juan Puerto Rico.jpg, The bridge in 2017. File:Puente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Piedras River Aqueduct
The Old Piedras River Aqueduct (Spanish: ''Antiguo acueducto del Río Piedras''), also known as the San Juan Waterworks (''Acueductos de San Juan''), is an aqueduct in the ''barrio'' (district) of El Cinco of San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan ( , ; Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist, John") is the capital city and most populous Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the .... It is by the Piedras River, next to the San Juan Botanical Garden, University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden. This aqueduct dates to the mid 19th century and it was important for the urban development of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. History The development of an aqueduct at the site by the Piedras River dates to 1825 and it was important to the urban development of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, then known as El Roble. The waterworks were critical for their supply of clean wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
