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Río Piedras (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈrio ˈpjeðɾas]) (Spanish for ''stones river'') is an urbanized commercial and residential district in San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico, concentrated in the barrios of Pueblo, Universidad, Hato Rey Sur, El Cinco, and Monacillo Urbano, about 4 to 7 miles (6.4 to 11.3 km) from the Old San Juan historic quarter, Condado and Isla Verde ...
Río Piedras Pueblo (officially just Pueblo, unofficially downtown Río Piedras), is one of 18 barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [3] [4] [5] Rio Piedras Pueblo is what used to be the urban center-barrio (downtown district) of the former municipality of Río Piedras until 1951, when the municipality of Rio Piedras was merged with the municipality of San Juan.
The river gives its name to Río Piedras, a former town and municipality, today a district of San Juan. Even if the Piedras River is considered a tributary of the Puerto Nuevo River , the hydrological basin it belongs to is often referred to as the Río Piedras watershed and it is ecologically important for the San Juan Bay estuary and the ...
Río Piedras Antiguo is one of the 6 subbarrios [2] of Pueblo, a barrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [3] It was, at one time, a subdivision of Río Piedras , a former municipality of Puerto Rico. Gallery
The Tren Urbano (English: Urban Train) is a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) automated rapid transit system serving the main metropolitan area of Puerto Rico, specifically the capital municipality of San Juan, and the adjacent municipalities of Guaynabo and Bayamón in northeast of the main island.
Río Piedras is a rapid transit station in the San Juan Metropolitan Area, Puerto Rico. It is located between Cupey and Universidad stations on the only line of the Tren Urbano system, in the downtown area of Río Piedras ( Río Piedras Pueblo ), in the city of San Juan .
Las Piedras barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Las Piedras, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 1,500. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
The Vigil House (Spanish: Casa Vigil) is a historic late 19th-century residence located in the Pueblo barrio, the former administrative and historic center of the town of Río Piedras before it was incorporated into the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The house is notable for being highly representative of wooden dwellings of the Puerto ...