are also several Ríos Rey murals in the first floor of the Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño building (today, 2019, it is called Banco Santander), and at the "Mural de la Música" at the former Parque de Bombas on the southeast corner of Calle Cristina and Calle Mayor (now, 2019, Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos). Last years and death Rios Rey died in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 29 April 1980. Honors and legacy University professor Néstor Murray Irizarry, wrote a biography of Rios Rey in 2001 titled Rafael Ríos Rey: ensayo de ensayo. It was published on the 90th anniversary of the birth or Rafael Rios Rey (2001). See also List of people from Ponce, Puerto Rico Notes References 1911 births 1980 deaths Puerto Rican painters Painters from Ponce 20th-century male artists