page_title: Avenida Las Américas
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Avenida Las Américas / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: The new Dr. Pila Hospital (now, Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila on Avenida Las Americas (PR-163) looking NE, in Barrio Canas Urbano, Ponce, Puerto Rico
context_page_description: Avenida Las Américas, is a major thoroughfare in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Most of its length is signed as Puerto Rico Highway 163. The highway has both of its termini as well as all of its length entirely within the Ponce city limits. It runs west to east. As of 12 November 2010, the segment of this road from its intersection in the west with PR-2R to its intersection in the east with PR-12, officially became the Bulevar Luis A. Ferré. The segment from Avenida Hostos in the east to Carretera Pámpanos in the west, the first segment built, was built in 1960.
context_section_description: The highway is a two-way divided six-lane road that starts at its junction in Barrio Canas with PR-500, near Avenida Baramaya (PR-9), next to Puente San Antonio, and runs east until it meets PR-1 at Bulevar Miguel Pou. 
  Avenida Las Américas runs easterly from PR-500, intersecting with PR-2R (Ramal PR-2R) near Francisco Montaner Stadium and Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium, and passing Secretaría de Recreación y Deportes. Continuing east it passes Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and Museo de Arte de Ponce, before intersecting with Avenida Hostos PR-123. Other points of interest on Avenida Las Américas are the former Puerto Rico Police headquarters for the Ponce Region, the Ponce Governmental Center, and Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila. Continuing east, the road crosses Rio Portugués and immediately afterwards the road intersects Avenida Santiago de los Caballeros (PR 12), and takes a northerly turn to intersect with PR-1 at Bulevar Miguel Pou, about one mile further.  Additional businesses along its way are Café Rico and Centro del Sur Mall, both at Avenida Las Américas's intersection with PR-133, also known as Calle Comercio.
caption: Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila on the north side of Avenida Las Américas looking northeast, in Barrio Canas Urbano
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