Faro de Punta de Las Figuras, Punta de las Figuras, Las Palmas, Arroyo Municipio, PR

Significance: The Punta Figuras Light was built as a local light to aid navigation into Arroyo and Patillas Ports in 1893. Originally it was a 5th order light, one of only two built, and showed a fixed white light with a 12 mile range. The dilapidated building stands surrounded by a swampy, marshy, stagnant, gray sand shore. South of the lighthouse, dark green rolling hills and distant gray-blueish Central Mountain Range cliffs provide a rather surrealistic ambiance to a white painted structure built in a once malaria-infected area. The rectangular and proportioned neo-classic structure vibrates under a hot, deep sky and dramatically counter-balances the entangled, lush tropical vegetation.

Survey number: HAER PR-10

Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1923 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1938

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1933 - 1970

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