Puerto Rico Highway 500
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| Length: | 1.0 km (0.6 mi) | |||
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| South end: | Canas | |||
| North end: | Magueyes | |||
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Puerto Rico Highway 500 is a tertiary road in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The highway has both of its endpoints, as well as all of its length, entirely within the Ponce city limits. It runs south to north.
The highway is a wide two way road originally designed to accommodate the oversized trucks used by the Ponce Cement, Inc. plant in barrio Magueyes, on road PR-123. The trucks were used to transport limestone soil from the northern slopes of the western barrio Canas hills, near barrio Tallaboa in Peñuelas to the cement plant. The road intersected Villa street, signed PR-132, which is the road leading from Guayanilla to Ponce through Peñuelas, and PR-123 (old PR-10) which leads from Adjuntas to Ponce.
In addition to intersecting PR-123 and PR-132, PR-500 also intersects PR-163/Las Americas Avenue as well as Baramaya street / PR-9 in its way into barrio Canas. It then becomes PR-549, which leads to barrio Quebrada Limon in the western portion of the municipality of Ponce.
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