Luis Muñoz Rivera Park

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Luis Muñoz Rivera Park

Some­times all that sight see­ing gets tire­some and all you want to do is noth­ing. That’s when you go for a stroll in the park, in the Luis Muños Rivera Park, that is.

Luis Muñoz Rivera was a Puer­to Rican poet, jour­nal­ist and politi­cian who lived dur­ing the last half of the 19th cen­tu­ry.  He was a major fig­ure in the strug­gle for polit­i­cal auton­o­my for Puer­to Rico.

The park is locat­ed on the east­ern cor­ner of San Juan Islet on a 27-acre plot of land. One of its inter­est­ing fea­tures is the only oth­er remain­ing pow­der house in San Juan, built in 1769 to sup­ply the near­by Fort San Jerónimo.

Con­struc­tion of Luis Muñoz Rivera Park start­ed in 1928. It has been restored twice, in 1990 and in 2003.  The place is beau­ti­ful, with dozens of walk­ways, foun­tains, great land­scap­ing and lush trop­i­cal vegetation.

Like the rest of San Juan you’ll find the mark of local van­dals. I did­n’t see much graf­fi­ti.  That’s a plus!  But most of stat­ues are miss­ing their bronze plaques.

Here’s a sug­ges­tion for the pow­ers at be: why not make these plaques out of some mate­r­i­al that looks like bronze but is actu­al­ly some sort of plas­tic.  That way it would be worth­less to recyclers.

Oh, and one last thing.  Like many parks around the world this is not a safe place to be at night.

Learn More About Puerto Rico

OLD SAN JUAN Enjoy an adven­ture through cen­turies of history
EL YUNQUE NATIONAL FOREST Explore the only trop­i­cal rain­for­est in the U.S.
LET’S HIT THE BEACH Have fun at one of Puer­to Rico’s world renown beaches.

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