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Canóvanas is a city in Puerto Rico, located in the north-east of the island. It is, along with San Juan, Bayamón, Guaynabo and Carolina, one of the cities that comprises the so called Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico. This article is about Puerto Rico, the territory of the United States. ...
San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. ...
Bayamón (not to be confused with Bayamo, Cuba) is a city in northern Puerto Rico. ...
Guaynabo is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico. ...
Carolina is a city located in the northern part of Puerto Rico, a short distance from San Juan. ...
Large numbers of African slaves lived in the Canóvanas area. Because of this, a considerable large number of Canóvanas' population is Black. Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ...
Canóvanas was also home of a large number of Taíno Indians. Because of this, Canóvanas' professional sports teams have traditionally been nicknamed the Indios. In 1983, BSN's Indios won Puerto Rico's national basketball championship and they repeated in 1984, but they eventually disappeared during the 1990s. The Indias women's volleyball team has also won a number of championships. In Horse-racing, Canóvanas is home to El Nuevo Comandante, Puerto Rico's most famous horse track, since 1972. The Taíno are the pre-colombian Amerindian inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. ...
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The National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico —or Liga Baloncesto Superior Nacional De Puerto Rico (BSN) in Spanish— was established in 1933 and has produced a handful of Puerto Ricos larger towns. ...
This article is about Puerto Rico, the territory of the United States. ...
Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ...
Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...
Volleyball is a popular sport where teams separated by a high net hit a ball back and forth between the teams. ...
Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ...
El Nuevo Comandante (The New Commander) is a horse racing building located in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, to the east of San Juan and Carolina. ...
1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
In 1983, an infamous criminal act occurred in Canóvanas when police tried to intervene in a drug ridden barrio of the area, Villa sin Miedo. One policeman was shot on his lung and died shortly after, in a case that received wide media attention in Puerto Rico. Villa sin Miedo (or Village Without Fear) is a barrio located in Canovanas, Puerto Rico. ...
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