Puerto Rico Highway 200 Explained

State:PR
Type:PR
Route:200
Maint:Puerto Rico DTPW
Length Km:13.9
Direction A:West
Terminus A: in Mosquito
Junction:
Direction B:East
Terminus B:Municipal landfill in Puerto Diablo
Municipalities:Vieques
Previous Type:Urban
Previous Route:199
Next Type:Ter
Next Route:201

Puerto Rico Highway 200 (PR-200) is a road located in Vieques, Puerto Rico. With a length of 13.9km (08.6miles), this highway extends from Mosquito to Puerto Diablo, passing through Isabel II (downtown Vieques).

Route description

This highway stretches east and west from Isabel II. The PR-200 East extends from the urban area to the municipal landfill in the Santa María sector, and the PR-200 West extends from Isabel II towards the southwest by the urban area, where Calle Carlos Le Brum is assigned to its intersection with Calle Muñoz Rivera. Then it changes its name to Calle San Francisco to the south until the PR-997 junction, where it runs west through Florida, passing the PR-201 intersection (km 2.5) and reaching the Martineau sector, following to the Gringo Beach. From this point it continues west, arrives at the Antonio Rivera Rodríguez Airport in Mosquito, passes PR-995 junction (km 6.6) until it reaches the old estrada of the military reservation (second gate) assigned to the municipality. At several points on this road there are narrow bridges that only provide space for a single vehicle.

History

Puerto Rico Highway 200 is part of original segments of old Roads  38 and No. 70 that existed until the 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering, a process implemented by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (Spanish; Castilian: Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) that increased the insular highway network to connect existing routes with different locations around Puerto Rico. Road No. 38 was the highway that led from Llave to Puerto Diablo through Mosquito, Florida and Isabel II, while Road No. 70 was a route from Mosquito to Punta Arenas.

Related route

State:PR
Type:Ter
Route:200R
Location:Vieques
Length Km:0.65

Puerto Rico Highway 200R (Spanish; Castilian: Carretera Ramal 200, abbreviated Ramal PR-200 or PR-200R) is a road that branches off from PR-200 in Isabel II. This highway begins at its intersection with Carlos Le Brum and Muñoz Rivera streets and runs through Plinio Peterson and Morropo streets. It crosses the Quebrada Cofresí and continues to the pier where the ferry docks, and then continues to the Punta Mulas Light, the Bravos de Boston neighborhood and the Santa María sector. PR-200R is 0.65km (00.4miles) long.

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