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Cardona Island Light stands on Cardona Island at the western side of the entrance to Ponce Harbor in southern Puerto Rico. First lit in 1889, it guided ships into a port important for sugar exports, especially to the United States, and remains an active aid to navigation. Its service was interrupted in 1942 during World War II and resumed on 10 November 1943; it was electrified in 1962 and apparently became unmanned. The lighthouse is historically and architecturally significant as Puerto Rico’s only 6th order lighthouse with a cylindrical attached tower, and as a rare surviving example of the island’s smaller coastal lights.
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Ponce, Puerto Rico · United States
