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Catedral, Old San Juan

Coordinates: 18°27′52″N 66°07′09″W / 18.4645589°N 66.1191550°W / 18.4645589; -66.1191550
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Catedral
View from Calle del Cristo and Calle del Tetuán in Catedral
View from Calle del Cristo and Calle del Tetuán in Catedral
Catedral is in San Juan Antiguo
Catedral is in San Juan Antiguo
San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan
San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan
Catedral is located in Caribbean
Catedral
Catedral
San Juan is in Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°27′52″N 66°07′09″W / 18.4645589°N 66.1191550°W / 18.4645589; -66.1191550
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality San Juan
BarrioSan Juan Antiguo

Catedral, located within Old San Juan, is one of 7 subbarrios of San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico.

History

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This subdistrict is named after the San Juan Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in the Americas, which is located here.

Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Catedral was 2,497.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 162.
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