Artists' Home Towns
Select a town below (in grey) for interesting facts and the names of santeros who live and work there.
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| Ponce
Founded: 1692
Population: 186,475 (2000 Census)
Residents known as: Ponceños
Location: Central Southern Coast on Caribbean Sea
Products: Quenepas (a local fruit), plastics, cement, tourism, sugar refining,
food processing, the manufacture of clothing and paper, and publishing.
Named for: Juan Ponce de León who traveled with Christopher Columbus;
he was the island's first governor
Nickname: La Perla del Sur (The Pearl of the South)
Patron saint: Our Lady of Guadalupe whose fiesta patronal or feast day is celebrated
on December 12.
Santos artists from Ponce: José Antonio Orta (currently lives in Miramar,
FL), Domingo Orta Pérez and Pedro Pablo Rinaldi Jovet
