Ballajá
Ballajá is one of 7 subbarrios of San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico. Ballajá is one of the six subbarrios which form part of the Old San Juan Historic District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: subbarrio in San Juan Antiguo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Ballaja Subbarrio”, “Ballajá Subbarrio”, “Ballajá, Old San Juan”, “Ballajá, Puerto Rico”, “Ballajá, San Juan”, and “Ballajá, Viejo San Juan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort San Felipe del Morro and Castillo San Cristóbal.
Fort San Felipe del Morro
Photo: Madera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castillo San Felipe del Morro, most commonly known as El Morro, is a large fortress and citadel in the Old San Juan historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico.
Castillo San Cristóbal
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Castillo San Cristóbal is a fortress in the Old San Juan historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico, known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World.
San Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist
Church
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, officially known as the Minor Basilica of Saint John the Baptist and Parish of Our Lady of Remedies, is the Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cataño and San Juan.
Cataño
Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.
Cataño is a small municipality and town in the Northern Coast region of Puerto Rico, across from Old San Juan in the Bay of San Juan.
San Juan
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Old San Juan is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the islet of San Juan in San Juan. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Santurce
Suburb
Photo: ethorson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santurce is the largest and most populated barrio of the municipality of San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico. With a population of 69,469 in 2020, Santurce is also one of the most densely populated areas of the main island of Puerto Rico with a population larger than most municipalities of the territory. Santurce is situated 6 km southeast of Ballajá.
Ballajá
- Category: subbarrio of Puerto Rico
- Location: San Juan, Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Ballajá” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ballajá Subbarrio”
- Spanish: “Ballajá (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Ballajá (San Juan)”
- Spanish: “Ballajá (Viejo San Juan)”
- Spanish: “Ballajá”
- Spanish: “Subbarrio Ballajá”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ballajá”. Photo: Tomás Fano, CC BY-SA 2.0.