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Faro del Puerto de Guanica, Punta Meseta, Guanica, Guanica Municipio, PR

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Faro del Puerto de Guanica, Punta Meseta, Guanica, Guanica Municipio, PR

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Summary

Significance: The Guanica Light is completely vandalized and in ruins, projected against the hills and dry mountains which form the east entrance to Guanica Harbor; one of the most important, busiest, and best of the Island. Similar to Cabo Rojo, the rocky and desertic land is unsuitable for cultivation.
Survey number: HAER PR-14
Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Central Lighthouse Commission
Puerto Rican Government
Sautter, Lemonnier, & Cie
U.S. Coast Guard
Murphy, Kevin, transmitter
Morales, Luis, photographer
Nistal-Moret, Benjamin, historian
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Location

Residencial Jardines de Guanica17.96963, -66.91094
Google Map of 17.9696305, -66.910939
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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