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The Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) was created by Law Number 23 of June 20, 1972. The first head of the Department was Cruz Matos. [5] In 2016 the agency's headquarters where temporarily moved from the Cruz A. Matos building in Cupey due to problems with the ventilation. [6]
The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority was established by Law 40 of May 1, 1945. [2]In 1995 the agency was privatized under the administration of governor Pedro Rosselló until 2002 under governor Sila María Calderón when the contract ended.
The Puerto Rico Automobile Accident Compensation Administration —Spanish: Administración de Compensaciones por Accidentes de Automóviles (ACAA) — is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico that provides compensation for medical and disability expenses resulting from traffic accidents in Puerto Rico. The coverage offered by the ...
The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (Spanish: Departamento de Agricultura) is one of the few Cabinet-level government agencies explicitly created by the Constitution of Puerto Rico [1] as the Department of "Agriculture and Commerce", most of the commerce at the time of its enactment being agriculture-based.
Some of the trails are the Frank H. Wadsworth trail, [10] Visitors Center trail, the Cueva del Agua trail, and the Tanamá River trail. [4] Given the karstic topography of the area, the state forest also has a number of caves such as Cueva del Agua and Cueva Alta. [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
AcuaExpreso (Spanish: AquaExpress) is a ferry service between Cataño and San Juan, Puerto Rico [2] that consists of two routes: . Cataño ⇆ Old San Juan on the Cataño Ferry docking at the AcuaExpreso Cataño Terminal in Cataño on the route's southwestern point and at the AcuaExpreso San Juan Terminal in Pier 2 of the San Juan Port in Old San Juan on the route's northeastern point, [3] and
Aguadilla (Spanish pronunciation: [aɣwaˈðiʝa], locally [awaˈðiʝa]), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela.
Hernando de Cataño was chosen to offer his medical services in Puerto Rico during Francisco Bahamonde de Lugo's tenure as Governor of Puerto Rico (1564–1568). He was one of the first physicians who arrived in Puerto Rico during its colonization [2] and, upon accepting his position, received as payment a piece of land across the San Juan islet.