Topic - San Juan

San Juan is Spanish for Saint John. It can also be the short version of San Juan Bautista (John the Baptist). In English, the name most commonly refers to the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Other topics that share the name include: - Source: Wikipedia

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A wooden Puerto Rican flag is displayed on the dock of the Condado lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sept. 30, 2021. The U.S. territory is seeing a growing number of displaced renters and a spike in housing costs, according to a Feb. 21, 2024 report by the Hispanic Federation. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

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Traffic lights are out of service on a street in San Juan, Puerto Rico, early Thursday, April 7, 2022. More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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The San Jose Church stands in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. The second oldest Spanish church in the Americas is reopening following a massive reconstruction that took nearly two decades to complete. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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An electoral official, right, tells a voter that the ballots haven't arrived at a voting center in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. Puerto Rico's primaries were marred on Sunday by a lack of ballots in a majority of centers across the U.S. territory, forcing frustrated voters who braved a spike in COVID-19 cases to turn around and go back home. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

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This satellite photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, shows a could of dust coming from the Sahara desert arriving to the Caribbean Monday, June 22, 2020. The massive cloud of dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the U.S. with a size and concentration level that meteorologists say hasn't been seen in roughly half a century. (NOAA via AP)

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FILE - This June 13, 2016 file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Florida. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, the FBI arrested U.S. federal narcotics agent Jose Irizarry and his wife, Nathalia Gomez Irizarry, at their residence in Puerto Rico, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the arrest. He has been charged with conspiring to launder money with the very same Colombian drug cartels he was supposed to be fighting. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

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The coffin containing the remains of television astrologer Walter Mercado is blanketed with lilies and roses during a public wake, in the Santurce neighborhood, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Mercado, whose glamorous persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for gay people in most of the Spanish-speaking world, died Saturday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, for a short trip to the White House after returning from the G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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In this file photo, senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart monitors the progress of Tropical Storm Dorian at the National Hurricane Center, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Pedro Pierluisi, sworn in as Puerto Rico's governor, speaks during a press conference, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

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Pedro Pierluisi, who has been nominated Puerto Rico's Secretary of State, arrives to the Senate with his sister Caridad Pierluisi, his spokesperson, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Puerto Rican politics were in full-blown crisis as confirmation of Pierluisi, the nominee to succeed departing Gov. Ricardo Rossello, was delayed into next week, casting doubt over who will become governor when Rossello leaves office. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

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Demonstrators, some waving Puerto Rican national flags, gather in front of the governor's mansion La Fortaleza, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico have been outraged by leaked, obscenity-laced online chats between Gov. Ricardo Rossello and his advisers, and have protested for nearly two weeks demanding his resignation. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

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