Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico

Santa Isabel is a town of 21,600 inhabitants (2000 census), located about ten minutes east of Ponce on PR Road # 52, the Luis A Ferré Expressway or PR Road #1.

Santa Isabel is known for its racehorse stables and for its mango plantations, both partly visible from the Luis A Ferré expressway.

Water from the rivers that flow through Santa Isabel is used to irrigate the fields for both horses and mangoes. This gives a touch of green to an otherwise barren and arid landscape.

The patron saint for Santa Isabel is "Santiago Apóstol", celebrated on July 25th.