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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 ...
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 ...
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, [ 1 ] and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce).
Map of the Río Piedras watershed, also known as the San Juan Bay Estuary Watershed (2015), and ends in the San Juan Bay. Puerto Rico has lakes (none of them natural) [27] and more than 50 rivers. Most of these rivers are born in the Cordillera Central, Puerto Rico's principal mountain range located across the center of the island. The rivers ...
The subdivisions of San Juan San Juan and Rio Piedras as separate municipalities on a 1915 map. As with the other Puerto Rican municipalities, San Juan is administratively divided into barrios. What is now known as Old San Juan occupied the western end of a rocky islet, the Isleta de San Juan, at the mouth of San Juan Bay. During the 20th ...
Puerto Rico Highway 47 (PR-47), also known as Calle De Diego, is an urban road in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. [2] Route description
Map of the Piedras-Puerto Nuevo river basin. Location; Commonwealth: Puerto Rico: Municipality: San Juan: ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)
To PR-1 (Carretera Miguel Hernández Rodríguez) / PR-797 – Caguas, Río Piedras, Aguas Buenas: San Juan: Quebrada Arenas: 0.0: 0.0: PR-1 north (Carretera Felipe "La Voz" Rodríguez) – Río Piedras: Northern terminus of PR-798; no access to PR-1 south; no access from PR-1; the Carretera Central continues toward Guaynabo