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There are more than 375 listings in Puerto Rico, with one or more listing in each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities. Puerto Rico's municipalities. For convenience, the list has been divided into six regions: National Register of Historic Places listings in western Puerto Rico; National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Puerto Rico
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo made landfall in Puerto Rico and caused heavy damages to the municipality. [104] By the 1990s, Dorado del Mar had closed, with Cerromar and Dorado Beach continuing their function. [105] In 1991, a reforestation initiative named Dorado Siembra was implanted. [104]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Dorado is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
As a result of the 1949 law, agencies in Puerto Rico sent plans for the construction of caseríos (housing) to Washington, DC for approval and by August 1952, the building of 9,890 new units across Puerto Rico had been authorized. [7] Law 93-383 passed by the US Congress on August 22, 1974 for the improvement of residences, included Puerto Rico ...
The Don Andrés Hernández Residence (Spanish: Residencia Don Andrés Hernández), also known as the Don Modesto Hernández Residence (Residencia Don Modesto Hernández), the Marcos Juan Alegría House (Casa Marcos Juan Alegria) or just the Yellow House (La Casa Amarilla), is a historic house located in Dorado Pueblo (downtown Dorado) in the municipality of the same name in northern Puerto Rico.
In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Dorado Pueblo was 937. [13] In July 2020, Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriated funds for repairs to Dorado's plaza. [14]
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing (Spanish: Departamento de Vivienda de Puerto Rico) is the department responsible for homeownership, affordable housing, and community assistance programs in Puerto Rico. It was created in 1972. [1]
Casa del Rey (Spanish for 'house of the king') is a historic building and former cabildo located in the historic center of Dorado, Puerto Rico.Throughout its history it has also been known as the Militia Guard Headquarters (Cuartel de la Guardia de Milicias), Parador del Rey, and the Municipal Jail of Dorado (Cárcel Municipal de Dorado).