Editing San Juan, Puerto Rico (section)

=== Founding ===
[[File:Ponce de Leon house.JPG|thumb|The ruins of [[Juan Ponce de León]]'s residence at [[Caparra Archaeological Site|Caparra]]|left]]

In 1508, [[Juan Ponce de León]] founded the original settlement which he called [[Caparra Archaeological Site|'''Caparra''']]. It was named after a [[Cáparra|former Roman city]] in the province of [[Caceres (province)|Cáceres]] in Spain,<ref>Río-Miranda Alcón, J. La ciudad romana de Cáparra - Municipium Flavium Caparense. 2011</ref> the birthplace of [[Nicolás de Ovando]], then the Governor of Spain's Caribbean territories.<ref>"[[Guaynabo]] -- Encyclopædia Britannica" (with history of Puerto Rico),''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', 2006, ''Britannica.com'' webpage:[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9038345/Guaynabo EB-Guaynabo-Puerto-Rico] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013063252/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9038345/Guaynabo |date=October 13, 2007 }}:names: [[Caparra Archaeological Site|Caparra]], the first Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico (1508).</ref> Today, it is part of the [[Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|Pueblo Viejo]] district of [[Guaynabo]], directly to the west of the modern municipality of San Juan. A year later, the settlement was moved to a site then called '''Puerto Rico''', Spanish for "rich port" or "good port", after its similar geographical features to the town of [[Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria]] in the [[Canary Islands]].<ref name="Caparra">{{cite web|publisher=National Park Service|title=Historic places in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/prvi/pr27.htm|access-date=2007-05-02|archive-date=May 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513201507/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/prvi/pr27.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico|local Catholic diocese]], the second oldest in the Americas and the oldest in the United States, was founded in the newly built settlement on August 8 of 1511.<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Latino Theme Study: Religion (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/latinothemereligion.htm|access-date=2021-11-15|website=www.nps.gov|language=en}}</ref> In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal name: '''''Ciudad de Puerto Rico de San Juan Bautista'''''. Many of the oldest European-founded institutions in the Western Hemisphere, such as the [[Galería Nacional|Santo Tomás de Aquino Convent]] and the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Hospital, were established during this time in San Juan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Historic Cities of the Americas|year=2005|isbn=1576070271|location=Santa Barbara, CA|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|pages=185+|language=English}}</ref>

The ambiguous use of ''San Juan Bautista'' and ''Puerto Rico'' for both the city and the island in time led to a reversal in practical use by most inhabitants: by 1746 the name for the city (Puerto Rico) had become that of the entire island, leading to the city being identified as ''Puerto Rico de Puerto Rico'' on maps of the era.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2272|work=New York Public Library|title=Nueva España documents and transcripts, ca. 1700-ca. 1799|access-date=November 21, 2015|archive-date=January 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102071102/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2272|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="HistoryS.J.">{{cite web|title=Historia de San Juan de Puerto Rico |language=es |publisher=Vive San Juan |year=2006 |url=http://www.vivesanjuan.com/historia.htm |access-date=2007-05-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501112503/http://www.vivesanjuan.com/historia.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/puerto-rico/index.html Puerto Rico]. Russell Schimmer, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330145912/http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/puerto-rico/index.html |date=March 30, 2010 }}</ref>