Juan Morel Campos is a statue to the memory of a Puerto Rican composer and danza master Juan Morel Campos located at Plaza Las Delicias in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Morel Campos composed over 550 musical works before he died unexpectedly at age 38.
[5] His unexpected death was the result of a stroke he suffered while performing with his band on stage during a concert in Ponce on 26 April 1896.
In December 1926, his remains were buried at the foot of his statue in Plaza Las Delicias.
He had been initially buried in niche #3, West Wall, First Line, at Ponce's old cemetery, now called Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro, but, in December 1926, his remains were moved to be reburied in a niche at the foot of his statue in Plaza Las Delicias.