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2 ημέρες πριν · San Juan, capital and largest city of Puerto Rico, located on the northern coast of the island, on the Atlantic Ocean. A major port and tourist resort of the West Indies, it is the oldest city now under U.S. jurisdiction. Originally, the settlement was known as Puerto Rico and the island as San.
28 Μαρ 2019 · The capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan ranks high on the list of most historic cities in the New World, with early explorers establishing a settlement there 15 years after Columbus’s monumental first voyage.
The ambiguous use of San Juan Bautista and Puerto Rico for both the city and the island in time led to a reversal in practical use by most inhabitants: by 1746 the name for the city (Puerto Rico) had become that of the entire island, leading to the city being identified as Puerto Rico de Puerto Rico on maps of the era.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. The capital of San Juan (2006 pop. 426,618) has throughout its history been at the center of Puerto Rico's political, economic, and cultural life. Although the island was discovered in 1493, Spain did not establish a permanent foothold there until 1509, when Juan Ponce de León founded Caparra on the western rim of San ...
San Juan , City (pop., 2010: city, 381,931; San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo Metro Area, 2,478,905), seaport, and capital of Puerto Rico. It was visited in 1508 by Juan Ponce de León and founded in the early 16th century by the Spanish.
The ambiguous use of San Juan Bautista and Puerto Rico for both the city and the island in time led to a reversal in practical use by most inhabitants: by 1746 the name for the city (Puerto Rico) had become that of the entire island, leading to the city being identified as Puerto Rico de Puerto Rico on maps of the era.
(San Juan, Puerto Rico) The history of San Juan dates back to the beginning of the 16th century, when the original settlement of Caparra, which is now called the Pueblo Viejo sector of Guaynabo, was founded a little to the west of what is the metropolitan area today.
