The historic Parque de Bombas and Ponce Cathedral buildings are located bordering the north side of this plaza.

[14] In addition to the cathedral and the firehouse, Plaza Degetau at one point also contained an open dining Moorish-style kiosk that had been part of the 1882 Fair Exposition.

In the center of this plaza lies the famous Fuente de los Leones (Lions Fountain).

[20] It had been erected under the direction of 1812 mayor of Ponce Jose Ortiz de la Renta, ca.

[note 1] In 1882, the location was then occupied by "Arab kiosk" (a.k.a., "Kiosko La Alhambra"[21]) built in 1882 for the 1882 Ponce Fair.

[25] The fountain was the inspiration for a poem published in 2002,[26] that reads, This plaza also features a statue of native composer Juan Morel Campos.

[27] Also in this plaza is an obelisk in honor of the firefighters who fought the "El Polvorín" fire (see Parque de Bombas).

The woman's left hand holds a sword that sits inside a shaft which rests on the ground, and there are two children sitting happily by her feet: one is embracing the lower part of the sword's shaft and the other child is playing with an orange tree branch.

La Labradora, together with a fourth sculpture yet called El Cuerno de la Abundancia (The Horn of Abundance), were moved out of the plaza in the late 1940s to make room for the Monumento a los heroes de El Polvorín (1948) and the statue of Juan Morel Campos (~1950), respectively.

It is surrounded by two hotels, the Ponce City Hall, two historic banks (Banco de Ponce and Banco Crédito), a long-standing ice cream parlor called "King's Ice Cream", and various boutiques and cafes.

[30] The plaza has wide mosaic-tile sidewalks, well-manicured flower gardens, well-trimmed bushes and Indian laurel trees, late 1800s lamposts, and numerous marble benches.