Faro del Puerto de Guanica, Punta Meseta, Guanica, Guanica Municipio, PR
Summary
Significance: The Guanica Light is completely vandalized and in ruins, projected against the hills and dry mountains which form the east entrance to Guanica Harbor; one of the most important, busiest, and best of the Island. Similar to Cabo Rojo, the rocky and desertic land is unsuitable for cultivation.
Survey number: HAER PR-14
Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Central Lighthouse Commission
Puerto Rican Government
Sautter, Lemonnier, & Cie
U.S. Coast Guard
Murphy, Kevin, transmitter
Morales, Luis, photographer
Nistal-Moret, Benjamin, historian
Location
Residencial Jardines de Guanica, 17.96963, -66.91094
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html