Casa Natal de Luis Muñoz Rivera

Casa Natal de Luis Muñoz Rivera located in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, is a structure of great political and cultural significance.

In addition to its political and historical value, the structure is a good example of the Creole residential architecture of the interior of the island of Puerto Rico at that time.

The house is characterized by the simplicity of its architectural components and by the use of wood, both in the structure as in the details.

A Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician as well as a major figure in Puerto Rico's struggle for political autonomy, Muñoz Rivera founded the important newspaper La Democracia and collaborated on El Pueblo, El Clamor del País and El Buscapié, among others.

After the United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, Muñoz Rivera founded the Liberal Party and the Union Party of Puerto Rico and from 1911 to 1916 he was appointed Resident Commissioner in Washington, D.C.[2][3]