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Juan Santamaría International Airport. / 9.99389°N 84.20889°W / 9.99389; -84.20889. Juan Santamaría International Airport ( Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría) ( IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC) is the primary airport serving San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The airport is located in Alajuela Province, 20 kilometres (12 ...
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.
Puerto Rico has been the scene of a number of aviation accidents and incidents. The following is a list of some of the most notable ones: A Douglas DC-2 of the USAAF crashed into a mountain in the city of Coamo on October 1, 1942, during a flight to Isla Grande air-strip, after taking off in Juana Diaz. All 22 occupants perished.
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [15] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
The governor of Puerto Rico is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The position was first established by the Spanish Empire during the 16th century following the archipelago's colonization. The first person to officially occupy the position was Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León in 1509. [ 1]
San Juan ( / ˌsænˈhwɑːn /, 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.