Arecibo

Arecibo is a municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, at the seashores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida. It is set 50 miles west of San Juan, the capital metropolis. Arecibo is the most important municipality in Puerto Rico by means of place, and is part of the San Juan, Caguas and Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is unfold over 18 wards and Arecibo Pueblo the downtown vicinity and the place of job of the town. Its population in 2010 changed into 96,440.

Arecibo is also called La Villa del Capitan Correa Captain Correa's Villa after the Puerto Rican hero Captain Antonio de los Reyes Correa of the Spanish Army, who drove off a British Navy invasion via ambushing forces led by rear-admiral William Whetstone. Arecibo is also known as El Diamante Del Norte, The Diamond of the North and La Ribera del Arecibo, The Bank of the Arecibo. The Arecibo Observatory, which until July 2016 was the world's biggest radio telescope, is positioned here. Arecibo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arecibo.