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4 unusual facts about Guaynabo


Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Guaynabo Fluminense FC is Guaynabo's professional soccer team that plays in the Puerto Rico Soccer League.

The Mets de Guaynabo are the local women's volleyball team that play in the LVSF, or The Liga de Voliebol Superior Femenino.

El Nuevo Día, Chrysler, Santander Securities, Puerto Rico Telephone, and many sales offices for large US firms (such as Texaco, Microsoft, American Airlines, Dell and others) have their Puerto Rican headquarters in Guaynabo.

Guaynabo Fluminense FC play their matches at the Jose Bonano Stadium that was originally made for baseball, but became a soccer arena after the Puerto Rico Baseball League was cancelled for the 2008 season.


Alejandro Cruz

As Mayor of Guaynabo, Cruz put emphasis on the city's sports programs, and, in 1983, the Mets Pavilion (named after the city's BSN basketball team; later renamed Mario Morales coliseum) was opened.

Carmelo Ríos Santiago

He studied at the Ramón Marín Elementary School in Guaynabo and in 1991, he entered Florida Air Academy in the US.

Diego Lizardi

In June, 2008, at the request of Senate of Puerto Rico President Kenneth McClintock, Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Migdalia Padilla and former Senate President Antonio Fas Alzamora, the Puerto Rico Legislature appropriated $25,000 for a statue of Diego Lizardi to be placed at the Puerto Rico Sports Museum in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

Fort Brooke, Puerto Rico

In 1978 the station moved to a new facility in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico near the Fort Buchanan Army base and became the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS).

Guaynabo Fluminense FC

ground = Jose "Pepito" Bonano Stadium
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|

Manuel de Dios Unanue

He was survived by his mother, three sisters (one of them being Dr. Teresa de Dios Unanue, a notable educator and President of Atlantic University College in Guaynabo) and a brother, as well as his girlfriend and business partner Vicky Sanchez and their two year-old daughter Melody.

Tren Urbano

There is no service to Old San Juan, Santurce, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (and many other parts of Guaynabo, Bayamón, and San Juan), and the Tren Urbano doesn't serve important suburbs like Cataño, Toa Baja, Toa Alta, Carolina, Trujillo Alto, Canóvanas and others, which helps to explain low ridership.

William Rosales

At the time of his death, he served as Special Assistant to Guaynabo mayor Héctor O'Neill.


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