Barrio Playa, also known as Playa de Ponce, Ponce Playa, or La Playa, is one of the thirty-one barrios that comprise the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Bucaná, Canas, Vayas, and Capitanejo, Playa is one of the municipality's five coastal barrios. Barrio Playa also incorporates several islands, the largest of which is Caja de Muertos. It was founded in 1831.
Miguel Rosich y Más was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 8 May 1889 until 31 March 1890, and again in 1897, starting on 1 April 1897.
Juan Cortada y Quintana was a Puerto Rican politician, businessman, and landowner. He served as Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 27 September 1872 to 4 February 1874
Juan de Dios Conde was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1836 and again in 1839.
Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1906. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico.
Antonio Arias Suñé was the mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1903 to 1904.
Enrique Chevalier Chardón was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1902.
Timoteo Luberza de San Martín was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican engineer from Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was responsible for the 1875 Ponce water supply system, including the dam in Rio Portugues, and the Calle del Agua masonry arch aqueduct in barrio Portugues Urbano in Ponce. In 1864, he served briefly as mayor of the nearby town of Yauco. He is best remembered for designing Plaza del Mercado de Ponce.
Juan Bertoli Calderoni was a nineteenth-century French architect from Bastia, Corsica, and long-time resident of Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he designed various prominent structures including Teatro La Perla, Casa Serrallés, and Residencia Ermelindo Salazar among various other historic building.
The Puente Río Portugués is a historic bridge over the former course of the Río Portugués in barrio Playa in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The bridge was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The bridge is prominent as "the oldest longitudinal steel beams / reinforced concrete bridge built within the historic Carretera Central". It is located on Avenida Hostos, just south of its intersection with Ponce By Pass.
The Acueducto de Ponce, formally Acueducto Alfonso XII, is the name of a historic 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. This aqueduct was the first modern water distribution system built in Puerto Rico.
Pedro Sánchez de Mathos was the first municipal magistrate of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1692. He was appointed mayor by the Governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Robles de Lorenzana. He had been regidor in San German in 1676 and was its mayor in 1688.
José Molina was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1822.
Tomás de Renovales was a Spanish military commander for the southern region of Puerto Rico in the first half of the 19th century and de facto Mayor of the city of Ponce in 1831.
Juan Lacot Feliú was Mayor of the city of Ponce from 1 September 1848 to 30 September 1849.
Flavius Dede was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1850 to 31 March 1850.
Francisco Romero was an interim Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1847 and again in 1866.
José Casimiro Ortíz de la Renta was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during two short periods in 1821.
Fuerte de San José, also known as Fuerte de la Playa de Ponce, was an 18th-through-19th-century Spanish fortress located in Barrio Playa in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was part of a three-fort system design to defend the Port of Ponce, the Barrio Playa seaport village and the City of Ponce from seaborne attacks. However, only two of the three fortifications materialized, with Fuerte San José being the largest and most complete of the two fortresses built. The fort was in operation 130 years – from 1760 to 1890 – and was demolished in 1907 by order of the Puerto Rico Legislature to make room for the growing civilian population of Barrio Playa.
