{"id":174,"slug":"ermita-san-antonio-de-padua-de-la-tuna-isabela-puerto-rico","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Ermita San Antonio de Padua de la Tuna stands in the hills above Isabela, on Puerto Rico's northwest coast — the ruined chapel of a village that moved away. La Tuna took its name from the prickly-pear cactus of the hillsides; San Antonio was its patron. Tourism accounts date the original village church to around 1730 — the file keeps the construction year unverified, as the notes insist — and at its height the settlement counted roughly 1,200 people in sixty households gathered around the chapel.","In 1819 the village petitioned for and received permission to relocate to the coast, where the ground and the harbor were more favorable — and founded the town that became Isabela. The church and its hilltop village were left behind."]},{"heading":"Ruins in use","paragraphs":["What the abandonment left is substantial enough for the register: the ermita's standing walls are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the site draws visitors for what tourism copy calls meditation — a roofless colonial chapel in pasture above the sea.","The file keeps the chronology honest — the exact construction date and the step-by-step of the move stay flagged as unverified — and files no haunting claim. What is documented is the rarer kind of Puerto Rican ruin: not a building abandoned by disaster, but a church its whole congregation left together, when they took the town downhill to the water."]}],"name":"Ermita San Antonio de Padua de la Tuna","aliases":[],"type":"CHURCH_RUINS","type_label":"Church Ruins","cats":["RUINS","ABANDONED_SETTLEMENT"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Church remains from the village preceding modern Isabela.","full_desc":"Ermita San Antonio de Padua de la Tuna is a ruined church in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Church remains from the village preceding modern Isabela. The archive files it under abandoned settlements and ruins. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"Calle Ermita","city":"Isabela","county":null,"state":"Puerto Rico","postal":"00662","region":"Caribbean","lat":18.501749,"lon":-67.023722,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Exact construction year and relocation chronology unverified. Ruin and former-settlement inclusion; no haunting claimed.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.3,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Tourism dates the original village church to the 1730s. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Ermita San Antonio De Padua De La Tuna'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ermita San Antonio De Padua De La Tuna","url":"https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/profile/ermita-san-antonio-de-padua-de-la-tuna/8513","publisher":"Discover Puerto Rico","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Ermita San Antonio De Padua De La Tuna","url":"https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/profile/ermita-san-antonio-de-padua-de-la-tuna/8513","publisher":"Discover Puerto Rico","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}