Isla de Cabras

by Mariola Bitner

Title

Isla de Cabras

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Mariola Bitner

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Photograph - Photography

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San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.[5] Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Crist�bal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas.

Technological advances after World War II in the development of the airliner, coupled with the island's climate and natural setting, have transformed San Juan into the springboard for tourism around the island, and has made the rest of the Caribbean known throughout the world during the last fifty years. Today the capital features hotels, museums, historical buildings, restaurants, beaches and shopping centers. In San Juan there are tourist attractions, including: Old San Juan, Ocean Park, Isla Verde and Condado.

Places and monuments emphasized in tourism campaigns include: Old San Juan, promoting the historic nature of its colonial buildings and narrow streets covered by adoquine, a blue stone cast from furnace slag; they were brought over as ballast on Spanish ships. This includes the city's ancient defensive wall and forts, most notably El Morro and the Castle of San Crist�bal. On January 23, 1984 both of these edifices were catalogued as being part of humanity's cultural patrimony. The restaurants and art galleries in the zone are visited by tourists. The local universities are promoted as historic places, most notably the campus of University of Puerto Rico located in R�o Piedras, which is the oldest university on the island being founded in 1903.

Be sure to visit Isla de Cabras, a little island extending over the bay of San Juan where you can enjoy an afternoon walk and have a relaxing picnic with the most scenic views of El Morro, the city walls. You’ll see mega cruise ships and industrial ships enter the bay. Five hundred years ago this same bay was almost impossible to enter, the Spanish protected the bay with the construction El Morro (across the island) and the onsite Fortin of San Juan de la Cruz.

Isla de Cabras (Goats Island in English) is an islet located at the entrance of the San Juan bay in Puerto Rico. It is part of the Palo Seco barrio of the municipality of Toa Baja.
Isla de Cabras is the current location of:
Fortín San Juan de la Cruz, also known as El Cañuelo.
A recently opened recreational park.
A local police firing range.

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