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Flights to puerto rico gran canaria12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() It was named after a former Roman city in the province of Cáceres in Spain, the birthplace of Nicolás de Ovando, then the Governor of Spain's Caribbean territories. In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original settlement which he called Caparra. Founding The ruins of Juan Ponce de León's residence at Caparra The area of San Juan used to be the boundary between the tribal regions (yucayeques) of Guaynabo and Haimanio, led by the chiefs ( caciques) Mabo and Yuisa (also known as Loaíza), respectively, at the time of the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. Remains of a small indigenous fishing village have been found in Puerta de Tierra where the Puerto Rico National Guard Museum stands today, however most archaeological sites in the region have been destroyed and lost throughout the colonial history. The Taíno people were the original inhabitants of the area before the arrival of the Europeans to the island of Puerto Rico in 1493. ![]() The city has been the host of events within the sports community, including the 1979 Pan American Games 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games events of the 2006, 20 World Baseball Classics the Caribbean Series and the Special Olympics and MLB San Juan Series in 2010. San Juan is also a principal city of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. The population of the metropolitan statistical area, including San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Guaynabo, Cataño, Canóvanas, Caguas, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Carolina and Trujillo Alto, is about 2.443 million inhabitants thus, about 76% of the population of Puerto Rico now lives and works in this area. Today, San Juan is Puerto Rico's most important seaport and is the island's financial, cultural, and tourism center. These historic sites were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Several historical buildings are located in the historic district of Old San Juan among the most notable are the city's former defensive walls, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas. Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and is the oldest European-established city under United States sovereignty. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("City of Puerto Rico", Spanish for rich port city). As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan ( / ˌ s æ n ˈ hw ɑː n/, Spanish: Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. ![]() La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico ![]()
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