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Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic. It was politically incorporated as the "Verón–Punta Cana township" in 2006, and it is subject to the municipality of Higüey (La Altagracia Province). According to the 2022 census, this township or district had a population of 138,919 inhabitants. [5]
[2] [4] Their first project was a 40-guest hotel called the Punta Cana Club. In 1979, they constructed the Puntacana Hotel, followed by the Punta Cana International Airport in 1984. [ 2 ] In 2000, the first of the residential community developments began, and six years later, Tortuga Bay opened a boutique hotel designed by fashion designer ...
Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport was built with open-air terminals and roofs covered in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the airport, which was designed by architect Oscar Imbert, and inaugurated it in December 1983. [2]
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
The NASA DC-8 sits on the ramp at Punta Arenas airport, Chile, during pre-flight procedures during the 2012 Antarctic campaign for IceBridge project. Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Presidente Carlos Ibáñez) (IATA: PUQ, ICAO: SCCI) is an airport serving the city of Punta Arenas in southern Chile in the Patagonia region of South America.
Naval and Maritime Museum of Punta Arenas (Spanish: Museo Naval y Marítimo de Punta Arenas) The museum is located at Pedro Montt No. 981, next to the Military Museum. It holds a historical collection of the Chilean Armed Forces during the colonization of the territory of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica .
Punta Hidalgo at sunset. The construction of the lighthouse was completed in 1992 and it became operational in 1994, as part of the maritime lighting plan that was drawn up in the 1980s, which included the need for new lights at a number of locations in the Canaries.
The word punta is a Latinization of an ancient West African rhythm called bunda, or "buttocks" in the Mandé language. [1] Another possibility refers to punta in the Spanish meaning "from point to point", referring to the tips of one's toes or to the movement from place to place. [4]