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Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
The Ponce Municipal Library, formally, Biblioteca Municipal Mariana Suárez de Longo (English: Mariana Suárez de Longo Municipal Library), and also known as Biblioteca Publica de Ponce (English: Ponce Public Library), is the library system of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1870, it is the oldest public library in Puerto ...
This is a list of events in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ponce is Puerto Rico 's second largest city outside the San Juan metropolitan area. It is located in the southern coast of Puerto Rico, about a 75-minute drive via Autopista Las Americas or reachable via plane as a destination at the Mercedita International Airport or by cruise line at the Port of ...
The Ponce City Hall has one of the most unusual histories of any city hall throughout the world, because it was a jail until the end of the 19th century. [3] Rooms currently used as offices were jail cells before, and the courtyard of the City Hall was the place where executions took place. [3]
In 2007 the organization had already opened a "virtual" center on the Web at MySpace for awareness, support, and interest. [23] In 2007, the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce made public its intention to formally initiate the first phase of the development of the Autism Center, under the supervision of its First Lady, Mrs. Nancy Colón de Zayas.
WMTJ has one full-service satellite: WQTO, virtual channel 26 (digital channel 19), in Ponce. WMTJ's digital signal was not on the air until a few months before the transition deadline. WMTJ's digital signal was not on the air until a few months before the transition deadline.
WVOZ (AM), a radio station (1260 AM) licensed to serve Ponce, Puerto Rico WVOZ-TV , a television station (channel 36, virtual channel 48) licensed to serve Ponce, Puerto Rico WBQN , a radio station (1580 AM) licensed to serve Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, which held the call sign WVOZ from 2016 to 2024
This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest [1] and second most important city. [2] [3]From 1692 to 1840, the office of mayor [a] in Ponce was filled either by local hacendados or by military officers appointed by the governor, depending on whether the political situation on Spain at the time was that of a constitutional or an ...