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The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) is a Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Planning Board (Junta de Planificación) for use by both private and public entities to evaluate, register, revitalize, develop or protect the built historic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico in the context and for economic ...
The island, sometimes erroneously termed a key (or, cay), is located 5.2 mi (8.4 km) south of the Puerto Rican mainland and is part of Barrio Playa [4] [5] ward of the Ponce, Puerto Rico, municipality. It is located 590 feet (180 meters) off the southwest point of Caja de Muertos island and has an area of just 0.015 square miles (0.039 km 2).
There are more than 375 listings in Puerto Rico, with one or more listing in each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities. Puerto Rico's municipalities. For convenience, the list has been divided into six regions: National Register of Historic Places listings in western Puerto Rico; National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Puerto Rico
Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-87154-751-4. Scarano, Francisco A. Sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico: The plantation economy of Ponce, 1800-1850 (U of Wisconsin Press, 1984). Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
Geologically separated from the Greater Antilles island of Hispaniola by the Mona Passage and from the Lesser Antilles island arc by the Anegada Passage, the main island of Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgin Islands of Vieques and Culebra, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular ...
Puerto Rico’s complex politics Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, with Maria killing an estimated 3,000 people and becoming one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history.
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [21] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
Prosperity lost power during a storm and wrecked off Guernsey in 1974 claiming 18 lives.