San Lorenzo (Spanish Saint Lawrence) is a town in eastern Puerto Rico. Also called El Pueblo de los Samatitanos or La Tierra de Leyendas, San Lorenzo was founded in 1811 by Valeriano Muñoz de Oneca. Its original name was San Miguel de Hato Grande. The surrounding areas produce tobacco and sugar canes.
San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521 and is regarded as the oldest city in the United States of America (the oldest city in the continental United States is St.
Today, San Juan serves as PuertoRico's most important seaport, as well as the main manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourist center of the island.
In the XVIII century the San Miguel de Hato Grande ranch was part of the original Hato Grande de los Delgado ranch, enormous extension of land granted by royal decree to a family, and was part of a ward of the an extensive valley which had as headquarters Caguas.
The economy of SanLorenzo, originally based on cattle ranching, included later on the cultivation of sugar cane, that was processed in a refinery moved by steam and five oxen which had two stills.
The grill is the traditional symbol of SanLorenzo, deacon and martyr, patron of the town, because in a grill he underwent the martyrdom, slowly burned to death.
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