9-508: Parque Familiar Julio Enrique Monagas (English: Julio Enrique Monagas Family Park ) is Puerto Rico's largest passive park. It is located in barrio Bucaná , Ponce, Puerto Rico , on the banks of the Bucaná and Portugués rivers. The park was named after Julio Enrique Monagas , "the father of Puerto Rican Olympic sports". In November 2017, the park was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria and, as of today (January 2021), remains closed. The park
18-418: A Ridable miniature railway . Bucan%C3%A1 Bucaná is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico . Together with Canas , Playa , Vayas , and Capitanejo , Bucaná is one of the municipality's five coastal barrios. The name of this barrio is of native Indian origin. It was founded in 1831. Prior to being established as a barrio of Ponce, around 1597, the bay of Ponce had
27-637: A density of 2,958 persons per square mile. In 2010, the population of Bucaná was 3,630 persons, with a density of 2,669.10 persons per square mile. It has the shortest coastline of all five of Ponce's coastal barrios. The communities of Los Caobos and Camino del Sur are found in Bucana. Major roads in barrio Bucana are PR-1 , PR-578 and PR-52 . Barrio Bucaná is home to the Julio Enrique Monagas Family Park . San Anton Too Many Requests If you report this error to
36-558: A small place populated by Christian European settlers that was called Bucaná. In 1800, Bucaná was known as Coto Bucaná, a type of grant of land suitable for farming to a resident by the Spanish king in recognition for some service provided by the resident to the King. Bucaná is an urban barrio located in the southern section of the municipality, within the Ponce city limits, and southeast of
45-404: Is located in barrio Bucana , at the merging of Rio Portugues and Rio Bucana , off PR-2 (Ponce By-pass). The park was built at a cost of over $ 3 million. The park was created under the administration of Ponce mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago . It initially consisted of 80 acres (320,000 m) of land and lakes. It was subsequently expanded to 125 acres (0.51 km). It opened in 1994 under
54-789: The USACE removed debris and, upon completion, the Government of the Municipality of Ponce proceeded to perform cleanup activities. In late September 2019, mayor Mayita announced the allocation of $ 3.9 USD million for the reconstruction of the park. The funds, however, were to be shared with reconstruction of Teatro La Perla , Complejo Recreativo de La Guancha , Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes , Plaza del Mercado Isabel II , and Complejo Acuático Víctor Vasallo . The family-oriented park had paddle boats, picnic areas with gazebos, exotic birds, skate park and various playgrounds for children and
63-782: The Costa Caribe Country Club East Access Road. In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Bucaná is bounded in the North by Sabanetas , in the South by the Caribbean Sea, in the West by San Anton and Playa , and in the East by Vayas . Bucaná has 1.34 square miles (3.5 km ) of land area and 0.81 square miles (2.1 km ) of water area. In 2000, the population of Bucaná was 3,963 persons, with
72-624: The administration of mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago and was considerably enlarged in October 2008 under the administration of mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo . It was built during the administration of Mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago . At the moment of its inauguration in 1994, it was the largest passive park in the Caribbean. The park was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017 and, as of November 2019, remained closed. In April 2019
81-613: The traditional center of the city, Plaza Las Delicias . The toponymy , or origin of the name, alludes to the river that makes its way through it, Río Bucaná . It is bounded on the North by Marginal Street/PR-578 (one block north of PR-1 ), on the South by the Caribbean Sea , on the West by Rio Bucana , PR-2 (roughly), Rio Portugues , and the Portugues-Bucana Rivers Channel, and on the East by Bucara Street/Los Caobos Avenue, PR-52 (roughly), and
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