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TUNA POINT LIGHTHOUSE
Working to attain and reconstruct the Tuna Point Light House
"Faro De Punta Tuna"& protect the US coastline
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Historic American Engineering Record information finalized August 1979
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places 10/22/81
POINT TUNA LIGHT
State: PUERTO RICO
Location: SOUTHEAST OF PUERTO MAUNABO
Nearest City: MAUNABO
County: GUAYAMA
U.S.C.G. District: 7
Year Station Established: 1892
Year Light First Lit: 1892
Is the Light Operational? YES
Automated: 1989
Foundation Materials: STONE
Construction Materials: STONE
Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
Shape: OCTAGONAL
Relationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
Size of building: 27.7 x 12.4 x 5.5 meters
Tower Height: 49
Original Optic: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL
Year Original Lens Installed: 1892
Present Optic: 190 MM
Height of Focal Plane: 110
Candle Power of Light: 700,000
Bulb Spec: 120 volt 1000 watt
Bulb Type: Quartz Iodine
Viewable Distance: 25 miles
Radio Beacon: 288 kilocycles
Has tower been moved? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
Year Constructed: 1892
Number of Stories: 1
Architectural Style: INTEGRAL
Construction Materials: BRICK/STONE
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION/COAST GUARD HOUSING
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD
Open to the Public? NO
Web Site: WW.TUNAPOINTLIGHTHOUSE.ORG
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #81000688
Name of Listing: FARO DE PUNTA DE LA TUNA
On State List/Inventory? NO;
HABS/HAER Documentation? YES, PR-9
The design was drawn and laid out by Joaquin Gisbert in 1890.
The Lighthouse construction was initially overseen by Adrián Duffaut.
It was built in the period of March 13, 1891 to September 29 of 1893.
Final construction was taken over by Spanish Body of Engineers according to annotations of the historian Carlos Moral.
Originally named Faro de Mala Pascua after the Cape to the west. Moved and renamed after the Point of the construction site so the light could perform a double duty warning ships off the Sargent reef.
August 8, 1899 the lighthouse suffered the fury of hurricane San Ciriaco, but was safe. The town sufferers heavy damage.
1900 (12 April) An Act of Congress (31 Stat. L., 77, 80) extended the jurisdiction of the Lighthouse Service to the noncontiguous territory of Puerto Rico and adjacent American waters.
1900 (1 May) The Lighthouse Board took charge of the Puerto Rico lighthouses.
September 13, 1928, Devastating Hurricane San Felipe II strikes, again the lighthouse stands firm, but the town housing is nearly totally destroyed.
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We are a US Federal Public Charity under Section 501C(3) 509a All Donations are fully Tax deductible!
This site is dedicated to the lighthouse restoration and lighthouse preservation of the Punta Tuna lighthouse. This USCG Lighthouse is considered part of the National Park Service, as it is one of the Puerto Rico National Historic Lighthouses. It is known but many names including, Tuna Point lighthouse, Point Tuna lighthouse, Faro de Punta Tuna, and Maunabo lighthouse. The Point Tuna Lighthouse is located in Maunabo, Puerto Rico and this site contains, lighthouse pictures, lighthouse photos, lighthouse blueprints, lighthouse facts, lighthouse images from space, weather at the lighthouse, Maunabo weather and weather for all of Puerto Rico. There is also detailed information, on the Maunabo Wetland area, and plans for the coastal security of the United States.
Click on the globe below to fly to the lighthouse on Google Earth
The Punta Tuna mangrove swamp is an estuarine wetland system located in Maunabo (a coastal town in Southeastern Puerto Rico); the wetland area is estimated in 40.5 hectares (100 acres). It consists of an impressing Pond Apple (Annona glabra) swamp, surrounding a small Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) stand; other wetland types are present there. The nearby beachfront is an important nesting area for the endangered Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) and Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles.
Point Tuna Conservation Area
...is about the people and communities that built ships, shipped goods, sailed ships, kept lights, rescued wrecks, fished waters, and kept the sea lanes open
...is about the use of waterways for commerce, transportation, defense, and recreation
...is about the traditions and skills, arts and crafts, artifacts and documents, and buildings, structures, and vessels that reflect our past maritime endeavors
...is what we help to interpret and preserve
America's maritime lighthouse heritage...
Nothing indicates the liberality, prosperity or intelligence of a nation more clearly than the facilities which it affords for the safe approach of the mariner to its shores.
Report of the Lighthouse Board, 1868
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Copyright © 2006 inclusive 2012 Tuna Point Lighthouse, Inc. All rights reserved.
Please note all Photo credits on the Photo Gallery page
MAUNABO, PRLIGHTS, y WETLAND las páginas ahora disponible en español. Vaya apenas a esas páginas y el click las conexiones.
See below the Presidential Proclamation dated June 30th, 1903 by THEODORE ROOSEVELT concerning the "Point Tuna" Lighthouse. A note in the document Puerto Rico is spelled "Porto Rico", as was the common spelling in that day.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Proclamation
June 30th, 1903
Whereas, by "An Act Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and buildings in the island of Porto Rico for public uses, and granting other public lands and buildings to the government of Porto Rico, and for other purposes," approved July 1, 1902, the President is authorized to make, within one year after the approval of said act, such reservation of public lands and buildings belonging to the United States in the Island of Porto Rico for military, naval, light-house, marine hospital, post offices, custom houses, United States Courts and other public uses as he may deem necessary, all public lands and buildings, not including harbor areas, navigable streams and bodies of water and the submerged land underlying the same, owned by the United States in said Island and not so reserved, being granted to the government of Porto Rico upon the condition that such government by proper authority, release to the United States any interest or claim they may have in or upon the lands or buildings reserved under the provisions of said act; and
Whereas, the government of Porto Rico, by an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Island entitled "An Act Authorizing the Governor of Porto Rico to convey certain lands to the United States for naval, military and other public purposes," approved February 16, 1903, has authorized the governor of Porto Rico to release any interest or claim that the people of said Island "now have or may hereafter acquire in and upon any lands or buildings belonging to the United States," for public uses under and by virtue of the power vested in the President under the terms of the act of the Congress above cited;
Now, Therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of the Congress, approved July 1, 1902, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that the following described lands be, and the same are hereby, reserved.
For a public building site in the city of San Juan the following parcel of land. That certain tract or piece lying in a northerly direction from block number fifty-five of said city and southerly and westerly from block number ninety, the said tract being now vacant and containing an approximate area of one thousand by two hundred feet, --as appears by a map of San Juan, compiled in the office of the Bureau of Public Works, by A. Morales, in 1901.
For the use of the Marine hospital service, a parcel of land at San Juan lying next west of the north and south line of the eastern boundary line of the military reservation west of the first line of defense. near San Antonio bridge,--running three hundred feet front east and west along the so called military road and extending toward the north to the old stone ditch defense. For Custom House purposes:
The lots and buildings used and occupied as custom houses at Ponce, Mayaguez and Humacao and the right until otherwise ordered to the use of the lots and buildings within the Puntilla point at San Juan now used and occupied by the Custom authorities for custom house purposes in said city.
For light house and buoy purposes at San Juan:
Beginning at a point S. 45 deg. E., 8 ft. from corner of parapet; thence S. 45 deg. E., 7.9 ft; thence S. 7.9 ft.; thence S. 5 deg. E., 4.3 ft.; thence W., 10 ft., thence N. 45 deg. W. 108 ft.; thence N. 7 ft.; thence E. 5 ft.; thence N. 3 ft.; thence N. 45 deg. E, 7.9 ft.; thence E. 7.9 to point of beginning.
Contains 400 sq. ft.
The San Juan Bastion.
Beginning at S. E. cor. of bastion, thence N. 12 deg. 45 W., 36.5 ft.; thence along curb line S. 87 deg. 45 W., 104.5 ft.; thence S. 5 deg. 15 W., 39.5 ft.; thence S. 68 deg., E, 63.2 ft.; thence N. 61 deg. E.,63 ft., to point of beginning.
Contains 0.111 acre.
Land Adjacent to San Juan Bastion.
Beginning at the N. E. corner of San Justo Bastion, thence North 78 deg., 30 East, 86.4 feet; thence South 16 deg, East 41.7 ft.; thence South 39 deg., 45 West, 67.6 feet; thence South 88 deg. West, 91.6 feet; thence North 18 feet; thence North 61 deg. East, 63 feet; thence North 12 deg., 45 West, 32.5 feet; to point of beginning.
Contains 0.168 acre.
For Lamp Shop and Buoy Depot.
Beginning at a point in the centre of proposed street; South 75 deg., 56 East, 1356 feet from N. E. corner of Military Ovens and South 4 deg. 55 East, 505 feet from S. W. corner of Industrial School; thence North 4 deg. 37 East, 438 feet; thence North 83 deg., 20 West, 100 feet; thence South 4 deg. 37 West, 993 feet; thence South 85 deg., 23 East 100 feet; thence North 4 deg. 37 East, 555 feet to point of beginning.
Contains 2.28 acres.
Also for light house purposes at Cape San Juan, an area of 1.52 acres; also at Point Mulas an area of ground of 2.6 acres; also at Point Ferro an area of 1.15 acres; also at Point Tuna an area of 4.24 acres; also at Point Figuras an area of 1 acre; also at Muertos Island an area of 7.28 acres; also at Guanica an area of 1.06 acres; also at Cape Rojo an area of 8.66 acres; also at Point Jiguero an area of 2.46 acres; also at Point Borinquen an area of 1.66 acres; also at Arecibo an area of 7.9 acres, all as indicated on maps and plats prepared by the Light House Bureau of the Third Light House District of Porto Rico, which said maps and plats showing the areas reserved have been this day by me signed and ordered filed in the Department of State; Also for Light House purposes at Mona Island a tract of land at and about the present light house station consisting of the area which lies East of a North and South line 500 ft. to the westward of the centre of the present light house in said Island; also that Island lying south of Ponce known as Cardona Island.
It witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
By the President:
FRANCIS B. LOOMIS,
Acting Secretary of State
"Obtained courtesy of John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara"
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BELOW IS A LIVE FEED OF INCHES BEACH IN-BETWEEN PATILLAS & GUARDARRAYA, PUERTO RICO
5 MILES WEST OF PUNTA TUNA LIGHTHOUSE
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