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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Chapters: Ponce, Puerto Rico. Excerpt: Ponce, Puerto Rico - Ponce's town center, circa 1900 The region of what is now Ponce belonged to the Taino Guaynia region, which stretched along the southern coast of Puerto Rico. Agueybana, a cacique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon when he came to the island in 1508. During the first years of the colonization, Spanish families started settling around the Jacaguas River, in the south of the island. For security reasons, these families moved to the banks of the Rio Portugues, then called Barayama. Starting around 1646 the whole area from the Rio Portugues to the Bay of Guayanilla was called Ponce. In 1670, a small chapel was raised in the middle of the small settlement and dedicated in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Among its earliest settlers were Juan Ponce de Leon y Loayza, and the Portuguese Don Pedro Rodriguez de Guzman, from nearby San German. On September 17, 1692, the King of Spain Carlos II issued a Cedula Real (Royal Permit) converting the chapel into a parish, and in so doing officially recognizing the small settlement as a hamlet. It is believed that Juan Ponce de Leon y Loayza, Juan Ponce de Leon's great-grandson, was instrumental in obtaining the royal permit to formalize the founding of the hamlet. Captains Enrique Salazar and Miguel del Toro where also instrumental. The city is named after Juan Ponce de Leon y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon. In the early 1700s Don Antonio Abad Rodriguez Berrios built a small chapel under the name of San Antonio Abad. The area would later receive the name of San Anton, a historically important part of modern Ponce. In the early 1800s, Ponce continued to be one of dozens of hamlets that dotted the Island. Its inhabitants surviv...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781156687949
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 200 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156687942
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • Width: 152 mm


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