San Juan Islet

San Juan Islet

Aerial view of San Juan Islet with Old San Juan
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Geography
Location	Caribbean Sea
Coordinates	18°28′0.43″N 66°6′26.47″W / 18.4667861°N 66.1073528°W / 18.4667861; -66.1073528
Archipelago	Puerto Rico Archipelago, Greater Antilles
Area	7.8 km2 (3.0 sq mi)
Territory	Puerto Rico
Demographics
Population	~7000 (2010)
Additional information
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)

San Juan Islet (Spanish: Isleta de San Juan) is a 3-square-mile (7.8 km²) islet or small island on San Juan Bay in the Atlantic coast of northern Puerto Rico. Home to Old San Juan, it is the site of the oldest permanent European settlement in Puerto Rico (1521), and the second oldest European settlement in the West Indies after Santo Domingo (1496). Due to its strategic location in the Caribbean during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, it is home to a city wall and a number of militaristic buildings such as El Morro Castle.^[1] Today, it is also home to many of Puerto Rico's government buildings such as the territory's capitol building (El Capitolio).