Puerto Rican politician Ramón Emeterio Betances spent close to six months at Arcachon shortly before his death in 1898.
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Between the Luis Muñoz Rivera and San Vicente streets is the Betances House, where was placed the home of Dr. Betances in Mayagüez during the cholera epidemic of 1856.
The uprising, which was planned by Puerto Rican patriots, Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances and Segundo Ruiz Belvis, was carried out by several revolutionary cells in the island led by Manuel Rojas, Mathias Brugman, Mariana Bracetti, Juan Ríus Rivera, Juan de Mata Terreforte and Aurelio Méndez Martinez, among others.