The Fiestas Patronales de Santiago Apostol is a religious and cultural celebration that generally features parades, games, artisans, amusement rides, regional food, and live entertainment. Icacos, Palomino and Palominito Cays (islets) Island Water Taxiįajardo celebrates its patron saint festival in July.The main town square - A colonial-style town square in the downtown.Fajardo Port - Used by locals and tourists to visit the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra.Las Cabezas de San Juan Reserve - Home to mangroves and to the lighthouse.Seven Seas Beach - Classified Blue Flag for its sanitary health guarantees.It was closed in 2017 after Hurricane Maria, and is scheduled to reopen in Fall 2020. One of Puerto Rico's most luxurious resorts, complete with its own private, 3 ft 10 in ( 1,168 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway connecting its main hotel building with its marina. El Conquistador, A Waldorf Astoria Resort.Customs House - Constructed in 1930 still in use by the U.S. Puerto del Rey Marina - Biggest marina in the Caribbean.Laguna Grande - One of the few Bioluminescent bays in the world that glow and offers night kayaking tours all year round.Only one used for nautical reasons in the entire island. Las Cabezas de San Juan Light House - One of the oldest lighthouses in Puerto Rico.Hurricane Maria on Septemtriggered numerous landslides in Fajardo with the significant amount of rainfall. Aguas Buenas Gorge, Fajardo Gorge, Juan Diego Gorge and the Mata Redonda Gorge.Geography įajardo is a coastal municipality with a number of islets. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Fajardo was 16,782. Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became a territory of the United States. For taking this action without US approval, Porter was later court-martialed. On November 14 1824, in what was dubbed the "Foxhardo" Affair, a US Naval Officer named David Porter went ashore in Fajardo with 200 seamen and marines, threatening to destroy Fajardo because one of his men had been arrested in Puerto Rico. Rodgers ordered some of his men ashore, which included Puerto Rican volunteers, with the mission of posting the American flag atop the lighthouse. Rodgers, was sailing by the coastline of the city of Fajardo, when Rogers noticed the Faro de Las Cabezas de San Juan (Cape San Juan lighthouse) which was supposed to be the landing site for the US Army in Puerto Rico. On Augthe USS Puritan under the command of Captain Frederic W. It was one of the locations used by the American troops to invade Puerto Rico. Fajardo was founded in 1760, 1773 or 1774 (depending on the authority) as Santiago de Fajardo.
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