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Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport ( IATA: SJU, ICAO: TJSJ, FAA LID: SJU) is a joint civil-military international airport located in suburban Carolina, Puerto Rico, three miles (5 km) southeast of San Juan. It is named for Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first democratically elected governor, and was known as Isla Verde International ...
This is a list of airports in Puerto Rico (an unincorporated territory of the United States ), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains 19 public-use and military airports in the Commonwealth. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial ...
NAS San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the mid-1940s. Originally constructed by the U.S. Navy as Naval Air Station Isla Grande just prior to World War II, [5] the facility also served as Puerto Rico's main international airport until 1954, when San Juan Isla Verde International Airport (subsequently renamed Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in 1985) was built.
El Vocero de Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican free newspaper that is published in San Juan. Published since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing El Mundo and El Nuevo Día and leading El Reportero and The San Juan Star in sales. With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of El Mundo, El ...
The airport has been enlarged on various occasions. One of the architects credited with the airport's construction is Raúl Gayá Benejam. [25] In 1962, Trade Winds started daily direct service to St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. [26] One major construction project, in particular, took place in 1963 when the runway was extended from 3,000 feet (910 m) to 3,900 feet. [9]
José Aponte de la Torre Airport. / 18.24528°N 65.64333°W / 18.24528; -65.64333. José Aponte de la Torre Airport ( IATA: NRR, ICAO: TJRV, FAA LID: RVR) is a public use airport owned by Puerto Rico Ports Authority and located 2.3 mi (3.7 km) from Ceiba, a coastal town in Puerto Rico. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated ...
San Juan and bay, Puerto Rico, 1766 City Wall of San Juan, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Regional Spanish Colonial era architecture in Old San Juan. San Juan underwent attacks from the English led by Sir Francis Drake in 1595 (in what is known as the Battle of Puerto Rico) and by George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, in 1598.
Postal codes in Puerto Rico, a United States commonwealth, are part of the United States ZIP code system. Puerto Rico is allocated the ZIP codes 00600 to 00799 and 00900 to 00999; the 008xx codes are allocated to the nearby United States Virgin Islands. Both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are served from the sectional center facility ...