Julio Enrique Monagas

Julio Enrique Monagas
Born1900[1]/17 October 1903[2]
Ponce, Puerto Rico[1]
Died14 July 1984
Ponce, Puerto Rico
NationalityPuerto Rican
Occupation(s)Sportsman, public servant

Julio Enrique Monagas (1900/1903 – 14 July 1984) was a Puerto Rican sports editor and administrator considered the father of Olympic sports in Puerto Rico. Through his efforts, Puerto Rico was admitted into the Olympic Games in 1948. Monagas was also the first director Puerto Rico's Public Recreation and Parks Commission, and the first president of the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization.[3]

  1. ^ a b Fourquet logra aprobar en la Cámara medida para investigar titularidad y reclamaciones a FEMA relacionadas al Parque Monagas en Ponce. Diario de Puerto Rico. 12 November 2021. Accessed 16 November 2022. Archived.
  2. ^ Sotomayor, Antonio. “‘UN PARQUE PARA CADA PUEBLO’: JULIO ENRIQUE MONAGAS AND THE POLITICS OF SPORT AND RECREATION IN PUERTO RICO DURING THE 1940s.” Caribbean Studies 42, no. 2 (2014): 3–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24706363.
  3. ^ Sports / Monagas, Julio Enrique.Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 12 July 2011. Archived November 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine