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Dead Dog Beach (La Playa de los Perros Muertos, also known as Sato Beach and officially named Playa Lucia) is a beach within the municipality of Yabucoa in southeastern Puerto Rico. Its nickname derives from it being a dumping ground for stray animals, mainly dogs that the inhabitants of Yabucoa could no longer afford.
Artistic representation of the extinct Puerto Rican shrew. The richness of mammals in Puerto Rico, like many other islands, is low relative to mainland regions. The present-day native terrestrial mammal fauna of Puerto Rico is composed of only 13 species, all of which are bats. 18 marine mammals, including manatees, dolphins and whales, occur in Puerto Rican waters. [13]
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Rincón (Spanish pronunciation:; Spanish for 'Corner') is a popular beach town and municipality of Puerto Rico founded in 1771 by Don Luis de Añasco, who previously founded Añasco in 1733. It is located in the Western Coastal Valley, west of Añasco and Aguada .
Desdoblamiento fonológico en el español de Puerto Rico (MA thesis). Río Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico. Figueroa, Neysa L. (2000). "An acoustic and perceptual study of vowels preceding deleted post-nuclear /s/ in Puerto Rican Spanish". In Campos, Héctor; Herburger, Elena; Morales-Front, Alfonso; Walsh, Thomas J. (eds.).
Puerto Rico Highway 177 (PR-177) is a main highway connecting the area of Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico to Bayamón, Puerto Rico. It passes through Guaynabo in the area known as Torrimar. It is divided in all of its length. In Bayamón, it ends in the intersection to Puerto Rico Highway 174 and Main Road, which connects to Puerto Rico Highway 2.
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...
Fiestas patronales in Puerto Rico are yearly celebrations held in each municipality of the island. Like in other countries, " fiestas patronales " are heavily influenced by Spanish culture and religion, and are dedicated to a saint or the Blessed Virgin Mary under one of her titles.