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Punta de las Figuras Light, also known as Faro Punta de las Figuras, stands in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, at the entrance to Balneario Punta Guilarte. First lit in 1893 under Spanish rule, it formed part of Puerto Rico’s late nineteenth-century coastal navigation system. Its service as a lighthouse ended when the light was moved in 1938, after which the original structure was abandoned. During World War II it served as a lookout, but after the U.S. Army departed in 1963, vandalism left the lens and lantern destroyed by 1969. Recognized as historic in 1981 and 2001, it was rehabilitated in 2003, then damaged again by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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