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Sunset in Rincon Puerto Rico. Rincon is known as the town of beautiful sunsets. The dusks become blazing shades of reds. This photo was taken in Barrero Beach near the Horned Dorsett and Villa Orleans.

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Rincon Puerto Rico is on the island s west side, bordering the Atlantic and the Mona Passage. Waters on the west tend to be calmer than the north. If you look at the Google Map, in front of the Villa waters, are shadows. These shadows are reefs keeping currents away

Biography. Raymond Ayala (Daddy Yankee) was raised in Villa Kennedy, a public housing project in the capital of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Coordinates: 18°06′52″N 66°10′05″W  /  18.11444°N 66.16806°W  / 18.11444; -66.16806

Guaynabo ( ; also known as Guaynabo City or GC) is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas; south of Cataño; east of Bayamón; and west of San Juan. Guaynabo is spread over 9 wards and Guaynabo Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city).

Guaynabo is considered, along with its neighbors - San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Carolina, Cataño, Toa Alta, Canovanas, Caguas, Toa Baja, and Trujillo Alto - to be one of the cities of the Área Metropolitana (Metropolitan Area) of San Juan (the largest MSA in Puerto Rico; many Puerto Ricans erroneously consider it the only metropolitan area in the Commonwealth). It is also part of the larger San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. The municipio has a land area of 70.26 km² (27.13 sq mi) and a population of 100,053 as of the 2000 census.

History

Guaynabo was founded in 1769 by Pedro R. Davila (P.R.), after a struggle for division from the municipality of Bayamón. Previously, the city was known as "Buinabo", a name that means in Taíno "He aquí otro lugar de agua dulce" or "Here is another place of fresh water."

Barrios (Districts/Wards)

Economy

Long considered to be just a mostly rural, drive-by town for drivers who were going from San Juan to the western part of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo went through a large economic revitalization in the 1950s and 1960s. As a consequence, parts of the city have also served as a San Juan suburb preferred by upper-middle and high-income families. Today, Guaynabo has the highest per capita income in Puerto Rico. The neighborhoods of Garden Hills, Torrimar, San Patricio and Tintillo are among the upper class neighborhoods located in Guaynabo that where built in the 1950s and 1960s, with the notable exception of Villa Caparra and Suchville, San Juan's first wealthy suburbs, which were built in the 1920s. Residential construction continued between the 1970s and 1990s, where hundreds of new upper middle class developments were built: Parkville, Mallorca, Tierra Alta, Villas Reales, Ext. Villa Caparra, Mansiones de Guaynabo, Mansiones Reales, and Palmas Reales, among many others.

As a result of the proliferation of upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods, several prominent private schools were founded in Guaynabo, including Academia San José, Colegio Marista, Colegio Adianez, and which mainly instruct in Spanish, although most private schools extensively cover English to levels comparable to those of the mainland; and Parkville School, American Military Academy, Baldwin School, in the Guaynabo-Bayamón border, and Wesleyan Academy, which mainly instruct in English. The first modern shopping mall built in the Caribbean and Latin America, San Patricio Plaza, was built in Guaynabo in 1963, in the San Patricio sector next to Villa Caparra.

Guaynabo's skyline is filled with over a hundred high-rise buildings. Most are residential condominiums, but the buildings also include various major headquarters for banks and other businesses.

When Alejandro Cruz was Guaynabo's mayor, many sport facilities were built, such as Mario "Quijote" Morales Coliseum (then called Mets Pavilion ). In addition, many manufacturing plants, such as the Hanes' plant, were established in Guaynabo. Guaynabo has, at different times, been voted the Most Picturesque and Cleanest Town in Puerto Rico.

Several businesses have their headquarters or local Puerto Rican branches in Guaynabo. El Nuevo Día, Chrysler, Santander Securities, Puerto Rico Telephone, and many sales offices for large US firms (such as Texaco, Microsoft, American Airlines, Dell and others) have their Puerto Rican headquarters in Guaynabo. WAPA-TV (Televicentro) and Univisión de Puerto Rico have their main studios in Guaynabo.

Iberia's San Juan-area offices are in Guaynabo.

Mayors

The Recent Mayors of Guaynabo

Mayors of Guaynabo from 1782 to 1969

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

• Baldorioty de Castro Statue
• Bellas Artes Center
• Caparra Ruins
• Caribe Recreational Center
• La Marquesa Forest Park
• Mets Pavilion
• San Patricio Plaza

Festivals and events

• Three Reyes Festival - January
• Mabó Carnival - March
• Mothers Tribute - May
• Patron Festivities - May
• Salsa National Day - June
• Bellas Artes Camp - June
• Bomba & Plena Festival - October
• Christmas Lighting - November

Sports

Guaynabo's old BSN team, the Guaynabo Mets, won national championships in 1980, 1982 and 1989, commanded by the player whom the Mario Morales Coliseum was named after, Mario "Quijote" Morales. The team does not exist enymore due to financial problems. The Conquistadores de Guaynabo, or Guaynabo Conquistadores, are the Guaynabo Mets replacement and still play in the Mario Morales Coliseum. The Mets de Guaynabo are the local women's volleyball team that play in the LVSF, or The Liga de Voliebol Superior Femenino. They have not won eny championships yet. They also play in the Mario Morales Coliseum. Guaynabo Fluminense FC is Guaynabo's professional soccer team that plays in the Puerto Rico Soccer League. The league started in 2008 and Guaynabo's current position in the league is 4th place. Guaynabo Fluminense FC play their matches at the Jose Bonano Stadium that was originally made for baseball, but became a soccer arena after the Puerto Rico Baseball League was cancelled for the 2008 season. It was at the same year that the Puerto Rico Soccer League was starting to take place. In the 2009 season ,Guaynabo Fluminense FC moved to the Sixto Escobar Stadium

• Mets de Guaynabo (Women's Volleyball) LVSF
• Guaynabo Conquistadores (Basketball) Baloncesto Superior Nacional
• Guaynabo Fluminense FC (Soccer) Puerto Rico Soccer League

Diplomacy

Guaynabo serves as a host city three foreign consulates with business in Puerto Rico:

•   El Salvador
•   Finland
•   Nicaragua

References

1. ^ http://welcome.topuertorico.org/maps/guaynabo.pdf
2. ^ "Iberia Around the World." Iberia . Accessed September 11 , 2008 .

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