Plaza Colón

Plaza Colón, formerly called Santiago Square, is a plaza or public town square located in where the easternmost city walls and main city gate used to be located.
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Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Park
  • Description: square in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Columbus Plaza”, “Columbus Square”, “Plaza Colon”, “Plaza de Colon”, “Plaza de Santiago”, “Plaza Santiago”, and “Saint James Square”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico and Teatro Tapia.

Government office
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , located at Avenida Ponce de León 1 in , is a Beaux Arts architecture style building dating from 1917.

Theater building
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Teatro Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, is the oldest free-standing drama stage building located in . It is named after Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, a Puerto Rican poet and dramatist.

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is a fortress in the historic quarter of , the capital municipality of , known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Perla and San Juan.

Neighborhood
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is a historic neighborhood located in the northern historic city of , , stretching about 650 yards along the rocky Atlantic coast immediately east of the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery and down the slope from Calle Norzagaray.

Quarter
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Old is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of in . Its area roughly correlates to the , , Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios of barrio in the municipality of .

Neighborhood
is one of 40 subbarrios of , in . Recently named the Convention Center District or "Distrito del Centro de Convenciones: it is bounded by , and the or Laguna del Condado.

Plaza Colón

Latitude
18.46606° or 18° 27′ 58″ north
Longitude
-66.11183° or 66° 6′ 43″ west
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
77CMFV8Q+C7
Geo­Names ID
4566846
Wiki­data ID
Q20018135
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Satellite Map

Discover Plaza Colón from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Spanish—“Plaza Colón” goes by many names.

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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