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the Mesoamerica Portal. Mesoamerica ( Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th ...
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18°23′59″N 66°03′00″W. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus with its clock tower, the Roosevelt Tower. Río Piedras ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈrio ˈpjeðɾas]) is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality ...
Notable alumni of University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Alumni. Notability. Juan Mari Brás. advocate for Puerto Rican independence from the United States; founded the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Norma Burgos. (B.A., M.P.A.) State Senator, Puerto Rico Senate (2001–present) Sila M. Calderón. (M.P.A.) 7th governor of Puerto Rico (2001 ...
The Quadrangle is the largest courtyard space in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. It is surrounding by buildings currently used by the University of Puerto Rico Administration and the College of Humanities. Its two most notable landmarks are the University Tower located on the western edge of the quad, and the University of ...
rcm1 .rcm .upr .edu. The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus — Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas ( UPR-RCM) in Spanish — is a public health sciences-oriented university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is part of the University of Puerto Rico System and is located on the grounds of the Puerto Rico Medical ...
UPR School of Law Profile. The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is a law school in Puerto Rico. It is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, the only law school in the University of Puerto Rico System and the only public law school in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1913 at its present ...
San Juan ( / ˌsæn ˈhwɑːn /, Spanish: [saŋ ˈxwan]; 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. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259.
Puerto Rico is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island but smaller than Connecticut. The maximum length of the main island from east to west is 110 mi (180 km), and the maximum width from north to south is 40 mi (64 km). [132] Puerto Rico is the smallest of the Greater Antilles.