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Old Urban Cemetery, also known as Cementerio Municipal, in
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Aguadilla (, ), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a Aguadilla barrio-pueblo, city and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of ...
, is a cemetery with burials dating back to 1813 or 1814. Near the town of Aguadilla's north entrance, it spreads between the beach and the foot of the mountain and is enclosed by mortar and stone walls. It is located at the foot of , a sector of
Aguadilla barrio-pueblo Aguadilla barrio-pueblo is an urban barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Aguadilla, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,627. As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called ''pueb ...
. Many of its older tombs, made of brick, stone and mortar, were damaged in a 1918 earthquake (presumably the
1918 San Fermín earthquake The 1918 San Fermín earthquake, also known as the Puerto Rico earthquake of 1918, struck the island of Puerto Rico at on October 11. The earthquake measured 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale and IX (''Violent'') on the Mercalli intensity scale. ...
). with Use of the cemetery began when burials were no longer allowed in the churchyard. Graves include that of poet-laureat
José de Jesús Esteves José de Jesús Esteves (October 15, 1881 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico - November 1, 1918 in New York, New York) was a Puerto Rican poet, lawyer, and judge in the Manatí Municipal Court. He was an expositor of the ''Modernismo'' literary movement. ...
, painter Rafael Arroyo Gely, and Luis R. Esteves (the first Puerto Rican graduate of
West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York that educates cadets for service as Officer_(armed_forces)#United_States, comm ...
). The cemetery was originally divided into sections for Catholics and non-Catholics. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1985, and on the
Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas'') is a Government of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Puerto Rico Planning Board, ...
in 2000.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in western Puerto Rico This is a list of properties and districts in the western municipalities of Puerto Rico that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (). It includes places along the western coast, and on islands, and on the western slope of Puerto ...


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* {{NRHP in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico 1813 establishments in Puerto Rico National Register of Historic Places in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico