Bella Vista | |
|---|---|
Subbarrio | |
| Commonwealth |  |
| Municipality |  |
| Barrio | Hato Rey Sur |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality of San Juan |
| • Mayor | Jorge Santini |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,739 |
| Source: 2000 United States Census | |
Bella Vista is one of the 4 subbarrios of Hato Rey Sur, itself one of 18 barrios of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [1]
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. Each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios.
San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it is the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 395,326. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496 and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1519. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas.
Coordinates: 18°24′33″N66°03′29″W / 18.4092137°N 66.0581590°W [2]
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.
