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San Juan (/ ˌsænˈhwɑːn /, Spanish: [saŋ ˈxwan]; Spanish for "Saint John ") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259.
Poverty incidence of San Juan 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 2006 2.90 2009 1.46 2012 0.28 2015 2.35 2018 0.76 2021 0.09 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Primex Tower, the tallest building in San Juan. San Juan is predominantly residential, mixed with commercial and manufacturing businesses. The Greenhills shopping district is the hub of trade and commerce in San Juan. The shopping complex housed ...
La Fortaleza (Spanish for 'the fortress'), the first defensive fortification to be built in San Juan which today functions as the official executive residence to the Governor of Puerto Rico. Built between 1533 and 1540, it is now the oldest executive residence in the Western Hemisphere. San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio histórico ...
October 15, 1966. Reference no. 66000930 [1] The Walls of Old San Juan (Spanish: Murallas del Viejo San Juan) is a defensive city wall that surrounds the western end of the San Juan Islet, site of the historic district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This defensive wall system was built between the 16th and 18th centuries to protect the city and the ...
Formation. 1901. The Mayor of San Juan (Filipino: Punong Lungsod ng San Juan) is the head of the local government of the city of San Juan that is elected to three-year terms. The mayor is also the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services. The city mayor is restricted to three ...
San Juan City, Colorado. / 37.76583°N 107.11222°W / 37.76583; -107.11222. San Juan City was designated the county seat of Hinsdale County, Colorado when the county was established on February 10, 1874. [1] [2] On February 23, 1875, voters decided to move the county seat to Lake City. [1] The town began as a mining camp, with the goal ...
San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén , with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista .
Pinaglabanan Shrine was built in 1976 to commemorate the 1896 Battle of Pinaglabanan in the city, then known as the town of San Juan del Monte. [2] The battle was part of a campaign by Katipunan revolutionaries, led by Andrés Bonifacio, who intended to seize El Deposito, an underground reservoir supplying water to Intramuros, and El Polvorín (the gunpowder depot).