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Puerto Rico >> the Caribbean   Latest Search
important location along the Mona Passage - a key shipping lane to the Panama Canal; San Juan is one of the biggest and best natural harbors in the Caribbean; many small rivers and high central mountains ensure land is well watered; south coast relatively dry; fertile coastal plain belt in north

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Puerto Rico
FlagInfo:wikipedia | flickr
Capital:San Juan
Currency:US dollar (USD)
Languages:Spanish, English
Population:3,897,960
Area:9,104
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For further information see the British Sub Aqua Club site
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Beaches (Sun Sea Sand)
Culebra Island, Playa Flamenco, Luquillo Beach
A nature reserve with understated development and unspoilt beaches.
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WEATHER DATA FOR PUERTO RICO




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Regional weather data available for...SAN JUAN/INT.

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photographs of taino symbols

Haitians stranded on roofs in flooded city.


A PUERTO RICAN man has been granted his wish to remain standing - even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

The Original Aerecibo 1974 Message (incomplete, not ALL of it has been deciphered) and an explanation of what we think each section means.






Datos y estadísticas de Puerto Rico y sus municipios.

Código de Rentas Internas de Puerto Rico de 2006

rainforest, budget lodging

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Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermudez (artist unknown), San Juan, Puerto Rico

I spotted this spray-painted mural on a roller shutter late one night in Old San Juan. My friend Luis, a native Puerto Rican, explained that this particular mural depicts a renowned event from a 2004 Olympic game between USA and Puerto Rico. After a particularly strong attack on the USA team, Arroyo pointed at his shirt defiantly, illustrating that he played for Puerto Rico whilst the USA fans chanted that "it's alright, it's OK, you'll be playing for us one day". Puerto Rico had an overwhelming victory against USA in that game and Arroyo now plays for Tel Aviv.

Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermudez (born July 30, 1979 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Arroyo is the fifth player from Puerto Rico to play in the NBA and has become arguably the most successful of them in NBA history. He is currently playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Arroyo has played in the NBA, NCAA, and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico (BSN) with the Cangrejeros de Santurce and Fajardo. Arroyo has also played internationally in Spain. Arroyo was a member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team that most notably defeated the United States at the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournament. He also represented Puerto Rico at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan.


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arroyo


Cristóbal Colón, Plaza de Colón, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Cristóbal Colón, Plaza de Colón, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Christopher Columbus (1451 – May 20, 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Afro-Eurasia — preceded some five hundred years by Leif Ericson, and perhaps by others — Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his several hapless attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, he personally initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World." (The term "pre-Columbian" is sometimes used to refer to the peoples and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus and his European successors.)

His initial 1492 voyage came at a critical time of growing national imperialism and economic competition between developing nation states seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies. In this sociopolitical climate, Columbus's far-fetched scheme won the attention of Queen Isabella of Spain. Severely underestimating the circumference of the Earth, he hypothesized that a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would be shorter and more direct than the overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would allow Spain entry into the lucrative spice trade — heretofore commanded by the Arabs and Italians. Following his plotted course, he instead landed within the Bahamas Archipelago at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the North-American island for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as "Indians".

Academic consensus is that Columbus was born in Genoa, though there are other theories. The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicisation of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. The name is rendered in modern Italian as Cristoforo Colombo, in Portuguese as Cristóvão Colombo (formerly Christovam Colom), and in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón.

The anniversary of Columbus' 1492 landing in the Americas (Columbus Day) is observed throughout the Americas and in Spain on October 12.


Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus


Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

68 shots, 45 used. First panography shot with a SLR makes for faster/sharper shots that allowed me to get more defined people in the final product.


El Crucero
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El Crucero

Crucero pasando detras de Santurce


Santurce @ Night
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Santurce @ Night

El area de Santurce durante la noche


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Ham



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Behind Bars
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Behind Bars


San Juan Sunday Morning
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San Juan Sunday Morning


El Morro Fort at Old San Juan
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El Morro Fort at Old San Juan


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