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The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority ( PRASA; Spanish: Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico) is a water company and the government-owned corporation responsible for water quality, management, and supply in Puerto Rico, a US insular area. [1] PRASA is the only entity authorized to conduct such business in Puerto ...
The Acueducto de Ponce (Ponce Aqueduct), formally Acueducto Alfonso XII, [4] is the name of a historic 2.5-mile [2] gravity-based water supply system in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was designed in 1875 by Timoteo Luberza and built the following years. [5] This aqueduct was the first modern water distribution system built in Puerto Rico. [6]
The Old Piedras River Aqueduct (Spanish: Antiguo acueducto del Río Piedras ), also known as the San Juan Waterworks ( Acueductos de San Juan ), is an aqueduct in the barrio (district) of El Cinco of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is by the Piedras River, next to the University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden. This aqueduct dates to the mid 19th ...
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away. In modern engineering, the term aqueduct is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose. [ 1] The term aqueduct also often refers specifically to a bridge carrying an artificial ...
Puerto Rico[ i] ( Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR ), [ 15] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [ b][ j] is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United States.
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The government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico —or public corporations ( Spanish: corporaciones públicas )— are a set of corporate entities owned entirely or in large part by the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico or by its municipalities. The corporations engage in commercial activities with their revenues ultimately ...
adjuntaspr .com. Adjuntas ( Spanish pronunciation: [aðˈxuntas]) is a small mountainside town and municipality in Puerto Rico located central midwestern portion of the island on the Cordillera Central, north of Yauco, Guayanilla, and Peñuelas; southeast of Utuado; east of Lares and Yauco; and northwest of Ponce.