La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Urban neighborhood in the Old San Juan Historic District in San Juan, Puerto Rico
La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico
La Perla (English: "The Pearl") is a small neighborhood in San Juan Islet in northeastern Puerto Rico, located within the districts of San Cristóbal and Mercado of San Juan Antiguo barrio in San Juan, the capital city and municipality. It is surrounded by the north wall of the Old San Juan historic quarter in the south, the Atlantic Ocean in the north, the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in the west, and the San Cristóbal fortress in the east. Named after a nonextant small fort built in the area in the early 1600s, it was first established around a slaughterhouse as a shantytown for farmers selling crops in the nearby market within the walled colonial city during the 1800s. Despite being a historically impoverished and troubled community, it has become a thriving cultural and business area, especially since it was featured in the music video of the chart-topping Despacito song in 2017.
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