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The 1932 San Ciprián hurricane[ a ] was one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the history of Puerto Rico. The center of the storm traversed the island on an east-to-west path in late September 1932, killing 272 people and inflicting at least $35 million in damage. [ b ] Winds in San Juan, Puerto Rico, were estimated to have reached at ...
List of Puerto Rico hurricanes (2000–present) Hurricane Maria near peak intensity to the southeast of Puerto Rico on September 19, 2017. The list of Puerto Rico hurricanes from the 21st century has been marked by several devastating North Atlantic hurricanes, tropical or subtropical cyclones, their remnants, or their precursors have affected ...
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service -managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3] This ...
Hacienda Lealtad is in mountainous Lares, Puerto Rico. After Plumey established Hacienda Lealtad, it became the largest and most modern of its time given it was the first to generate its own electricity to power the hacienda's machinery and mills.
He represented the District VI (Guayama). Served as Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from 1925 to 1930. When the Campbell Project was presented in 1922 [by whom?], Tous opposed to it. [citation needed] The project offered Puerto Rico the possible development of an autonomous state.
Puerto Rico[ i ] (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), [ 21 ] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [ b ][ j ] is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles ...
Casa de España is the headquarters of a private social organization whose members are those of Spanish descent in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Avenida de La Constitución in Old San Juan.
Hurricane Jeanne. Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998, and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make ...