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Rincón (Spanish pronunciation:) is a popular beach town and municipality of Puerto Rico founded in 1771 by Don Luis de Añasco, who previously founded Añasco in 1733. It is located in the Western Coastal Valley, west of Añasco and Aguada.
Puerto Rico Highway 413 (PR-413) is a rural road located at the west point of Rincón, Puerto Rico, and is famous in the island for being the main access to beaches near Tres Palmas and the Rincón Lighthouse, where local and international surfing tournaments take place.
Puntas is a barrio in the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,575. [3] [4] [5] Puntas is known for great surf and whale watching.
The Porta del Sol tourism region was designated in 2003 and officially launched on December 20, 2005, by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company by decree of Law No. 158. [5] The name of the region, Porta del Sol, references both the historic church of Porta Coeli (Latin for "gateway" or "doorway to heaven") and the famous scenic sunsets that can be seen along the western coast of Puerto Rico. [6]
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]
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Rincón Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Rincón) is the widest bay in the southern coast of Puerto Rico, [1] located along the coasts of the municipalities of Salinas and Santa Isabel. [2] The bay receives the flow of many rivers and creeks such as the Cayures , Jueyes and Nigua rivers.