Sights in Rincón
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Punta Higüero Lighthouse
Nicknamed El Faro, the Punta Higüero Lighthouse dates from 1892 and rises almost 100ft above the terrain. It was restored in 1922 after being severely damaged by a tsunami set off by the devastating 1918 earthquake. The 26,000-candlepower light has been automated since 1933 and still helps ships navigate the Pasaje de la Mona. The lighthouse park is a popular attraction in Rincón.
There are picnic tables, the odd food kiosk and a small museum inside the lighthouse building that displays artifacts from shipwrecks and relays anecdotes from the area's maritime history. The principal reason to come here, however, is for the view. Five great surf breaks are nearby, and somet…
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Museum
Contrary to popular opinion, Rincón’s history didn’t begin in 1968 with the World Surfing Championships. Proof lies in this tiny museum, which harbors articles salvaged from shipwrecks and testimonies on the area’s social history. Like a lot of the municipal museums on the island, the Centro Cultural is open irregularly and is dependent on the state of the current municipal budget and volunteerism. Enquire first at the Tourist Information Center; staff there should be able to enlighten you as to current opening times and/or the possibility of a private viewing.
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Centro Cultural Museum
Contrary to popular opinion, Rincón's history didn't begin in 1968 with the World Surfing Championships, and the proof lies in the tiny Centro Cultural Museum, which harbors articles salvaged from shipwrecks and testimonies on the area's social history. Like a lot of the municipal museums on the island, the Centro Cultural is open irregularly and is dependent on the state of the current municipal budget and volunteerism.
Enquire first at the Tourist Information Center; staff there should be able to enlighten you as to current opening times and/or the possibility of a private viewing.
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Rincón Balneario
There's a safe and newly renovated Rincón Balneario, where there's beach swimming, restrooms, showers, some temporary food shacks and a new mall which contains the tourist office, harbor restaurant and lookout tower.
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Museum
The small museum displays artifacts from shipwrecks and relays anecdotes from the area’s maritime history. The principal reason to come here, however, is for the view.
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Bonus Nuclear Power Plant
The Bonus Nuclear Power Plant, the green dome poking out from behind the palm trees behind the Punta Higüero lighthouse, once housed the first nuclear-powered electrical generating facility in the Caribbean. To purists, Rincón and nuclear energy probably go together like Nixon and Brezhnev, but paradise is full of surprises.
Back in the days when the Beach Boys led the Surfin' Safari, the Boiling Nuclear Superheater Plant (known half-sarcastically by the acronym of Bonus) was a test facility that produced a minuscule 16,000kW of electricity in order to introduce Latin America to the benefits of nuclear power and to train visiting engineers.The plant never functioned pr…
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