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Arecibo Observatory, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Vieques, Puerto Rico and 5 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Puerto Rico and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which also goes by the name National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and was once the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory.
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0
Art museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Often shortened to MAP: a museum on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico, whose collection covers European art along with work by Puerto Rican artists.
Photo: Oquendo on Flickr (appears to be Jose Oquendo here.), CC BY 2.0
Island-municipality of Puerto Rico
Officially the Isla de Vieques, an island and municipality of Puerto Rico which, with Culebra, makes up the Spanish Virgin Islands. It lies about 8 miles (13 km) east of Puerto Rico's main island, and measures about 20 miles (32 km) in length and 4.5 miles (7 km) in width.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain
Art museum in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
An art museum with 18 exhibition halls in Santurce, a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, housed in a historic building that was once the San Juan Municipal Hospital.
Photo: Moebiusuibeom-en, CC BY-SA 3.0
Historic church in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
Also called the Basilica of the Black Virgin of Monserrat, a historic shrine and minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church at Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. It honours the Blessed Virgin Mary as a Black Madonna, under her Marian title of “Virgin of Montserrat”.
Photo: Jcarrillovii, Public domain
Historic gravity-based water supply system in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Formally the Acueducto Alfonso XII, a historic water supply system 2.5-mile long in Ponce, Puerto Rico, running by gravity. Timoteo Luberza designed it in 1875, and it was built over the years after.
Photo: Edwin R Montalvo, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cemetery in Ponce, Puerto Rico
A cemetery in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the only one on the island with a set of niches built as a basement, so that burials took place below ground, like a catacomb.
Photo: Roca Ruiz, CC BY-SA 2.0
Coffee farm in La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico
Also called Hacienda La Lealtad, and once Hacienda la Esperanza: a large historic coffee estate in barrio La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico, which Juan Bautista Plumey, an immigrant from France who brought enslaved people with him to Puerto Rico, founded in 1830.
Photo: The Eloquent Peasant, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a self-governing Caribbean island and archipelago organised as an unincorporated United States territory with commonwealth status. It lies about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles and the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles, and is made up of the main island of the same name plus many smaller ones, among them Mona, Culebra and Vieques. Its approximately 3.2 million people live in 78 municipalities, the most populous being the capital, San Juan, followed by others in the San Juan metropolitan area.
Officially The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 8: Arecibo Observatory, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Vieques, Puerto Rico and Museum of Art of Puerto Rico and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Puerto Rico that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
English, Spanish. The currency is USD.
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