The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

* 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

In 1970, claiming to act in retribution for the June 1956 León Suárez massacre and Juan José Valle's execution, the Montoneros kidnapped and executed former dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu ( 1955 – 1958 ) and others who they said were his collaborators, such as unionists, politicians, diplomats, and businessmen.

Pedro Juan Caballero ( politician ) | Pedro Caballero demands the resignation of governor Belazco.

In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, King Philip IV of Spain, Queen Mariana and their court attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, with music by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco.

Later, Juan de Salazar y Espinosa and Gonzalo de Mendoza, relative of Pedro de Mendoza, were sent in search of Ayolas, but were unable to find him.

Father Pedro Estévan Tápis ( who had a special talent for music ) joined Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, at Mission San Juan Bautista in 1815 to teach singing to the Indians.

In 1544 Valdivia sent a naval expedition consisting of the barks San Pedro and Santiaguillo, under the command of Juan Bautista Pastene, to reconnoiter the southwestern coast of South America, ordering him to reach the Strait of Magellan.

* Fairs and Festivals of San Juan and San Pedro ( late June ).

The municipalities of Caloocan, Mariquina, Pasig, Parañaque, Malabon, Navotas, San Juan del Monte, Makati ( San Pedro de Macati ), Mandaluyong ( San Felipe Neri ), Las Piñas, Muntinlupa and Taguig-Pateros were incorporated into a new province named Rizal, the capital of which was Pasig.

The Dominican Republic has 31 provinces ( provincias ) and one National District * ( Distrito Nacional ): Azua, Baoruco, Barahona, Dajabón, Duarte, El Seibo, Elías Piña, Espaillat, Hato Mayor, Independencia, La Altagracia, La Romana, La Vega, María Trinidad Sánchez, Monseñor Nouel, Monte Cristi, Monte Plata, Pedernales, Peravia, Puerto Plata, Hermanas Mirabal, Samaná, Sánchez Ramírez, San Cristóbal, San José de Ocoa, San Juan, San Pedro de Macorís, Santiago, Santiago Rodríguez, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, and Valverde.

Among its earliest settlers were Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, and the Portuguese Don Pedro Rodríguez de Guzmán, from nearby San Germán.

The first Europeans arrived in the Los Angeles area in 1542, when Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillo reached San Pedro Bay, near present-day San Pedro.

* Juan Pedro Toledo ( b. 1978 ), Mexican sprint athlete

Lomita was originally part of Rancho San Pedro, granted by the Spanish Empire to Juan Jose Dominguez by King Carlos III of Spain in 1784.

The Rancho San Pedro ( Dominguez Rancho ) land grant exceeded as granted to a soldier, Juan Jose Dominguez, who accompanied Junipero Serra, by Governor Fages through authority of King Carlos III of Spain in 1784.

His administration was also characterized for investing in large-scale infrastructure projects which included a train system, dubbed Tren Urbano, a new convention center in San Juan, now officially named the Pedro Rosselló Convention Center and a massive aqueduct system which linked two major water reservoirs on the island.

Instigated by two canons, Juan Alfonso and Pedro Lopez Galvez, the mob plundered and burned the houses of Alonso Cota, a wealthy converso and tax-farmer.

Important composers of villancicos were Juan del Encina, Pedro de Escobar, Francisco Guerrero, Gaspar Fernandes, and Juan Guttiérez de Padilla.

Other writers include Alfonso Reyes, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Maruxa Vilalta, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz ( Nobel Laureate ), Renato Leduc, Jaime Labastida, Mariano Azuela (" Los de abajo ") and Juan Rulfo (" Pedro Páramo ").

Pedro Rosselló became the sixth elected Governor in 1992.

He is also the nephew of former Puerto Rican governor Pedro Rosselló.

On February 21, 2006, Pedro Rosselló set out to make a stand against what he calls " U. S. persistent colonialism in Puerto Rico " by organizing a " March for the End of Colonialism " ( La Marcha por el Fin de la Colonia ).

Groundbreaking ceremonies on November 7, 2007, fifteen years after his first election as Governor, marked the beginning of the construction of the Pedro Rosselló Gubernatorial Library at Turabo University's campus.

* Campos, Cielos y Flamboyanes: Con Pedro Rosselló de 1988 a 1997 – ISBN 1-881714-09-8.

* U. S. State Department biographical profile on Pedro Rosselló

* Yale Medical Review article on Pedro Rosselló ( former alum of the school )

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In January 2000, Governor Pedro Rosselló granted Echevarría a pardon, which was largely criticized by the people.

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Three NPP gubernatorial candidates registered nationally as Republicans ( Luis A. Ferré, Baltasar Corrada and Luis Fortuño ) while three NPP gubernatorial candidates registered nationally as Democrats ( Carlos Romero Barceló, Carlos Pesquera and Pedro Rosselló.

She lost to Fortuño's candidate, Pedro Pierluisi, and to another Rosselló supporter who was also defeated, former Senate President, Charlie Rodríguez.

* Dr. Pedro Rosselló ( 1991 – 1999 )

* Dr. Pedro Rosselló ( 2003 – 2008 )

* Dr. Pedro Rosselló 1992 – won ; 1996 – won ( largest NPP landslide up to then )

* Dr. Pedro Rosselló 2004 – loses governorship by 3. 566 votes.

Puerto Rican governor Pedro Rosselló activated the island's National Guard, opened 416 shelters, and enacted a temporary prohibition on alcohol sales.

She was defeated by Pedro Rosselló, the candidate for the New Progressive Party.

In 1994, he was elected president of the Popular Democratic Party, and in 1996 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Puerto Rico, losing by a 51 % to 45 % margin to Pedro Rosselló.

She faced Pedro Rosselló of the New Progressive Party and ended up losing by a landslide.