Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

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Aguadilla is a municipality located in northwestern Puerto Rico.

Aguadilla was once the site of the U.S. military's Ramey Air Force Base. Though the infrastructure still exists, it was handed over to the municipality of Aguadilla in the 1970s and is now civilian controlled. The hangars and runway of what was once the Ramey Air Force Base now make up the Rafael Hernandez International Airport.

Aguadilla was once primarily a fishing village, but has changed with the times. Although there is still a great deal of commercial fishing in Aguadilla, the city is now also home to a variety of industrial plants ranging from Tyco, Micron Technology and Hewlett Packard. The retail sector has flourished with the building of the Aguadilla Mall and local tourism has been boosted by the creation of the water park "Las Cascadas" (the waterfalls), and the Caribbean's only ice skating complex (Aguadilla Ice Skating Arena).

Aguadilla is most famous for its world class surfing beaches. Aguadilla's beaches host a variety of amateur and professional level surfing events every year. They have also hosted a variety of championships including the ISA world championships in 1968 and 1988. Famous surfing spots in Aguadilla include "Surfer's Beach", "The Table", "Gas Chamber", "Las Ruinas", "Crash Boat", and "Survivor".

The Aguadilla Divas of the Female Superior Volleyball League plays its home games in the Luis T. Diaz Coliseum in Downtown Aguadilla from January to March. WABA La Grande 850AM and WOLE-TV Telemundo 12 are both serve Aguadilla. Also in Aguadilla is Parque Colón and the Aguadilla Sharks of the Superior Baseball League (Double-A) plays its home games at Luis A. Canera Marquez Stadium from February to May. Future plans are to bulid a 5-story building called Plaza Mercado on the same site as the old Plaza Mercado, Renovate Fuente de la Juventud, Esteves Park (nearly finished), upgrade downtown Aguadilla by putting power lines underground, finish Ramey Skate Park, Bulid Hotel Las Casadas and the new Electronic Library as well.

Notable Aguadillans

José de Diego - poet
Rafael Hernández - composer and singer
Plácido Acevedo - composer
Agustín Stahl - scientist
Jerome Mincy - BSN player
Carlos Delgado - baseball player
Luis A. Marquez - baseball player
Pablo Fernandez Badillo - composer, novelist and poet

References

[Aguadilla and its barrios, United States Census Bureau]

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Largest islands	Culebra • Mona • Puerto Rico • Vieques
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