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Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce (; ) is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.
Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León.〔Some historians state that the municipality was named after Juan Ponce de León himself. (Crediting Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon himself see, for example: Jose Luis Diaz de Villegas, http://books.google.com/books?id=ovzJlU1f-iAC&pg=PA46, and Sandra Torres Guzmán's '' Una hacienda atada a la historia citadina'', http://www.periodicolaperla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5308:una-hacienda-atada-a-la-historia-citadina&catid=119:articulos&Itemid=342. Crediting the great-grandson see, for example: Encyclopedia Puerto Rico, http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=2; J.A. Corretjer, http://www.yerbabruja.com/pueblos/ponce.html; Frommer, http://books.google.com/books?id=Wy_BSu4a2EYC&pg=PA185; and Harry S. Pariser, http://books.google.com/books?id=KawuqbFxLS0C&pg=PT239.) A few authorities state it may have been named after the Ponce de Leon family in general, covering father, son, grandson, and great-grandson. Others state it was named for the Spanish Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon by his great-grandson Juan Ponce de Leon y Loayza who founded it.)〕 Ponce is often referred to as ''La Perla del Sur'' (The Pearl of the South), ''La Ciudad Señorial'' (The Noble, or Lordly, City), and ''La Ciudad de las Quenepas'' (Genip City). The city serves as the governmental seat of the autonomous municipality as well as the regional hub for various Government of Puerto Rico entities, such as the Judiciary of Puerto Rico. It is also the regional center for various other commonwealth and federal government agencies.
The Municipality of Ponce, officially the ''Autonomous Municipality of Ponce'', is located in the Southern Coastal Plain region of the island, south of Adjuntas, Utuado, and Jayuya; east of Peñuelas; west of Juana Díaz; and bordered on the south by the Caribbean Sea. The municipality has a total of 31 barrios (wards), including 19 outside the city's urban area and 12 in the urban area of the city. The historic ''Ponce Pueblo'' district, located in the downtown area of the city, is shared by several of the downtown barrios, and is located approximately three miles () inland from the shores of the Caribbean. Ponce is a principal city of both the Ponce Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce-Yauco-Coamo Combined Statistical Area. The municipality of Ponce is the second largest in Puerto Rico by land area, and it was the first in Puerto Rico to obtain its autonomy, becoming the ''Autonomous Municipality of Ponce'' in 1992.
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