I am pretty sure San Juan, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic were also built for the defensible positions. I would wager that this also had a major hand in St. John's being where it is, even though it is centred on the harbour, it is an extremely defensible location, being inside a very narrow passage. A fleet trying to invade St. John's could easily have been destroyed by cannons positioned at the narrows.
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
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