High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael Cordero Santiago (October 24, 1942 - January 17, 2004) - better known as Churumba - was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1989 to 2004. Many considered him as a synonym of Ponce, being baptized as the Greatest Lion (or, El León Mayor in Spanish) in reference to the city's nickname of The Lion City of Ponce. Mayor Cordero was a firm believer in the government descentralization process.