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The Ruta Panorámica ( Scenic Route ), officially the Ruta Panorámica Luis Muñoz Marín (Luis Muñoz Marín Scenic Route), is a 167-mile (269 km) network of some 40 secondary roads which traverse the island of Puerto Rico from west to east along its Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range). [2] [3] Most of the route consists of three roads ...
Canóvanas ( Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈnoβanas], locally [kaˈnoβanaʔ]) is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico, located in the northeastern region, north of Juncos and Las Piedras; south of Loíza; east of Carolina; and west of Río Grande. Canóvanas is spread over 6 barrios and Canóvanas Pueblo (the downtown area and administrative ...
Maricao State Forest. / 18.1227371°N 66.9746221°W / 18.1227371; -66.9746221. Maricao State Forest ( Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Maricao) is a state forest located in the eastern Cordillera Central mountains of Puerto Rico. It is commonly known as Monte del Estado due to the fact that it was one of the first forest reserves in Puerto ...
The highest elevation point in Puerto Rico, Cerro de Punta (4,390 feet or 1,338 meters), [3] is located in Cordillera Central, while El Yunque, one of the most famous peaks in Puerto Rico, located in the Sierra Luquillo at the El Yunque National Forest, has a maximum elevation of 3,540 feet (1,080 m).
Porta Cordillera ( Spanish for "dorway to the mountain range"), or simply Central Region ( Región Central ), [1] is a land-locked tourism region located in the central mountainous area of Puerto Rico. Porta Cordillera was officially launched in July 2012 by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. It consists of 16 municipalities: Aguas Buenas, Cidra ...
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3]
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. [1] Puerto Rico 's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios (English: "wards") and, as of 2010, there were 902 of them. [2] [3] In the US Census a barrio sometimes includes a division called a comunidad or ...
Guánica ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡwanika], locally [ˈwanika]) is a town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico, bordering the Caribbean Sea, south of Sabana Grande, east of Lajas, and west of Yauco. It is part of the Yauco metropolitan statistical area . Guánica barrio-pueblo, also known as Pueblo de Guánica, is the downtown of the ...