Canovanillas is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 11,681.
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Hipódromo Camarero is a horse racing building located in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, to the east of San Juan and Carolina. It is about a fifteen-minute drive from Carolina's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, and 25 minutes east from the Isla Verde hotel area. The new administration of Camarero Race Track Corporation start operations on January 5, 2007.
El Nuevo Comandante was built in 1976, and opened on October 31, 1976, to substitute the original "El Comandante" building, which had been located in Carolina, from January 1957 to mid October 1976. It has become arguably the most important horse racing complex in the island, holding horse races every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Camarero features a betting window, in which players can try their luck at different games, such as "El Pool Pote" and others. The top award a player can win at Hipodromo Camarero is the "Pool Pote" which has reached a staggering 12 Million dollars and has been the largest pot ever won in Puerto Rico's Horse Racing Industry. In addition to the betting windows at El Nuevo Comandante, the Industry has a link of betting agencies throughout Puerto Rico. These are called "agencias hipicas", and people can go there to place bets as well and enjoy local refreshments and snacks.
Races at "El Nuevo Comandante" have been shown on local television and on radio since the building was inaugurated. Some of the most famous television sportscasters in Puerto Rican history have commented from there, including Norman H. Davila and Manolo Rivera Morales.
Some famous jockeys have run there too, including Hall of Famer Angel Cordero, John Velazquez, Luis Hiraldo and J.C. Diaz.
Famous horses imported to run at El Nuevo Comandante have been: Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Bold Forbes, Santa Anita Derby winner Mister Frisky, Bandit Bomber and Dawn Glory.
Among the native horses: Hurly Road, Ribot's Verset, My favorite Place Capa Prieto, Camarero, Vuelve Candy B, El Platino, Verset Dancer and Verset's Jet who's the first horse to complete the Caribbean Derby and Confraternidad Stakes double.
El Nuevo Comandante also has the infamous distinction of having the horse with the most consecutive losses with 134 consecutive loses
El Nuevo Comandante is also the site where the most famous race in the Caribbean has been held for 32 years: The Clasico del Caribe has been celebrated there many times, with horses participating from Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, among other countries.
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Santa Cruz is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. According to the 2010 Census, its population in that year was 1,927.
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The Jesús T. Piñero House and Museum, often called the Pink House, is a historic house located along PR-3 just outside of Canóvanas Pueblo in the municipality of Canóvanas, Puerto Rico.
The house was built in 1931 for politician and then businessman Jesús T. Piñero, the last United States-appointed and first Puerto Rican-born governor of Puerto Rico in 1946. He and his wife raised their two children here, although the house was abandoned in 1952 following his sudden death. The house remained abandoned for a long period and was left to ruin due to vandalism in the 1980s and damages during Hurricane Georges in 1998, until it was acquired by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and some members of the Piñero family who sponsored its renovation and preservation. The house today is a museum dedicated to the life of Jesús T. Piñero and to the everyday life of the time between the 1930s and 1950s. The house was reopened to visitors in 2021 and guided tours are available.
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The Canovanillas River is a tributary of the Loíza River that flows through the municipalities of Carolina and Canóvanas in Puerto Rico. Its headwaters are located in barrio Lomas of Canóvanas, close to Cerro La Condesa of the Sierra de Luquillo. Throughout its course, the river traces along the municipal boundaries of these two municipalities.
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Trujillo Bajo is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 8,805.
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