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El Condado (Huelva)
Condado (Spanish for ''county'') is a highly urbanized beachfront resort, commercial, and residential district with various upscale hotels, restaurants, boutique shops, and condos in the barrio of Santurce in San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico. Located about from the Old San Juan historic quarter, Isla Verde resort area, Hato Rey business center, and SJU airport, the district is centered around Ashford Avenue, which extends east-west for about from the Parque residential area to San Juan Islet, where Old San Juan is situated. Condado is named after Count Pablo Ubarri, who built the San Juan Tramway, the first passenger steam and electric tramway in the main island operating from Old San Juan through Santurce to the Río Piedras district, in 1880. Vacant until the turn of the 20th century, the real estate development of Condado began with the construction of the Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital in 1904 by Grace Williams Atkins, ''Casa Mora'' (Moor Hou ... [...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] |
Condominium
A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners. These individual units are surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned and managed by the owners of the units. The term can be applied to the building or complex itself, and is sometimes applied to individual units. The term "condominium" is mostly used in the US and Canada, but similar arrangements are used in #By country, many other countries under different names. Residential condominiums are frequently constructed as apartment buildings, referred as well as Horizontal Property. There are also rowhouse style condominiums, in which the units open directly to the outside and are not stacked. Alternatively, detached condominiums look like single-family detached home, single-family homes, but the yards (gardens), building exterio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Transport In Puerto Rico
Rail transport in Puerto Rico currently consists of a passenger rapid transit, metro system in the island's metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Its history can be traced back to the mid-19th century with the construction of a limited passenger line in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Puerto Rico's rail transport system expanded significantly, becoming one of the largest rail systems in the Caribbean at the time thanks to an Boom and bust, economic boom in agriculture industries, especially the sugar cane industry. The rail system was expanded to include passenger travel with a direct line from the island's northern capital of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan to the western and southern cities and towns, greatly improving travel and communication within the island. However, the entire system was soon overshadowed by the arrival of the automobile, and by the 1950s was completely abandoned. Small remnants of this syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. p. 73. . Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the ''count'' had specific responsibilities or offices. The etymologically related English term " county" denoted the territories associated with some countships, but not all. The title of ''count'' is typically not used in England or English-speaking countries, and the term ''earl'' is used instead. A female holder of the title is still referred to as a ''countess'', however. Origin of the term The word ''count'' came into English from the French ', itself from Latin '—in its accusative form ''comitem''. It meant "companion" or "attendant", and as a title it indicated that someone was delegated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan Islet
San Juan Islet ( Spanish: ''Isleta de San Juan'') is a islet or small island on San Juan Bay in the Atlantic coast of northern Puerto Rico. Home to Old San Juan, it is the site of the oldest permanent European settlement in Puerto Rico (1521), and the second-oldest European settlement in the West Indies after Santo Domingo (1496). Due to its strategic location in the Caribbean during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, it is home to a city wall and a number of militaristic buildings such as El Morro Castle. Today, it is also home to many of Puerto Rico's government buildings such as the territory's capitol building ( El Capitolio). History Isleta de San Juan had been inhabited since before the Spanish arrival to the Caribbean in 1492. Remains of a shell shed and a fishing site were uncovered in 1937 (near the modern-day Puerto Rico National Guard Museum) in by archaeologist Irving Rouse from Yale University. The island was first mapped in 1519 with the intentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parque (Santurce)
Parque (Spanish language, Spanish for ''park'') is an urbanized Atlantic Ocean, beachfront residential district with various upscale Condominium, condos in the Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrio of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, the capital Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico. Located about from the Old San Juan historic quarter, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, Isla Verde resort area, Hato Rey business center, and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, SJU airport, it is centered around the eastern end of Bailey Ashford#Legacy and honors, Ashford Ave. and western half of McLeary Ave., extending east-west for about from the Ocean Park (Santurce), Ocean Park residential to Condado (Santurce), Condado resort areas. It is named after ''Parque Borinquén'' (Puerto Rico#Etymology, Borinquén Park), a large Landscape architecture, park built on the beach, which was serviced by the "Parque" or "Park" tramway extension of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bailey Ashford
Colonel Bailey Kelly Ashford (September 18, 1873 – November 1, 1934) was an American physician who had a military career in the United States Army, and afterward taught full-time at the School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico, which he helped establish in San Juan. A pioneering physician in the treatment of anemia, Ashford organized and conducted a parasite treatment campaign against hookworm while stationed in Puerto Rico. This cured approximately 300,000 persons (one-third of the Puerto Rico population) and reduced the death rate from associated anemia by 90 percent. He was a founding member of the Puerto Rico Anemia Commission. Early years Ashford was born in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 1873, as one of five children in the family of Francis Ashford, a prominent physician, and his wife. His general education was obtained at the public schools and at Columbian University in Washington, D.C. (now George Washington University). In 1896, he graduated from the Georget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín'') , previously known as Isla Verde International Airport (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Internacional de Isla Verde''), is the List of airports in Puerto Rico, primary international airport of Puerto Rico serving the capital Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan and its San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area, metropolitan area since 1955. Named after Luis Muñoz Marín, the first Election, elected List of governors of Puerto Rico#Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, governor of the Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island, the 1,600 Acre, acres (647 Hectare, ha) airport is located in the Beach, beachfront resort district of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, Isla Verde in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, Carolina, about east of the Hato Rey business center, Condado (Santurce), Condado resort area, Old San Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hato Rey
Hato Rey ( Spanish for ''king’s cattle farm''), often considered the central business district of Puerto Rico, is a highly urbanized financial, commercial, and residential district in San Juan, the capital municipality of the archipelago and island. Located in the center of the San Juan metropolitan area and divided into the barrios of Hato Rey Norte, Hato Rey Central, and Hato Rey Sur, it is about from the Old San Juan historic quarter, Condado and Isla Verde resort areas, and SJU airport. Hato Rey is home to the Milla de Oro financial district, José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, Hiram Bithrom Stadium, Telumundo International television network headquarters, and Plaza Las Américas shopping mall, among others. It was formerly a barrio of the dissolved municipality of Río Piedras, which was merged into San Juan in 1951. Urban landscape Its name means "king's cattle farm" ('' hato''). In the 18th century, cattle would roam among the sugar cane fields in the area. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
Isla Verde ( Spanish for ''green island'') is an urbanized, beachfront resort and residential district with various upscale hotels and condominiums in the municipality of Carolina, where the main airport of Puerto Rico, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, is located. Named after a small cay and reef near the shoreline, Isla Verde is about east of the Hato Rey business center, Condado resort area, and Old San Juan historic quarter in the adjacent capital municipality of San Juan, between the Los Corozos and San José Lagoon to the west and the La Torrecilla Lagoon to the east, which lies next to the state forest, beaches, and street food kiosks of the ''Piñones'' ("pine nuts") Afro-Puerto Rican community in the municipality of Loíza. Geolocation Isla Verde is named after a small cay surrounded by a coral reef measuring 2,518 m2 (0.6 acres) about 400 meters north of the shoreline at ''Punta del Medio'' (''middle point'') in the barrio of Cangrejo Arriba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old San Juan
Old San Juan () is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the San Juan Islet, islet of San Juan in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Old San Juan, Ballajá, Catedral, Old San Juan, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, Old San Juan, Mercado, San Cristóbal, Old San Juan, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco, Old San Juan, San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is the oldest settlement within Puerto Rico and the Historic district, historic Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonial district of the city of San Juan. This historic district is a Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones, Puerto Rico Registered Historic Zone and a National Historic Landmark, National Historic Landmark District, Old San Juan Historic District, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, United States National Register of Historic Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
