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The Puerto Rico Tourism Company established the Paradores de Puerto Rico brand in 1973 [1] under the administration of Governor Luis A. Ferre, who wanted to enhance the tourism sector of the island. The company runs an enterprise known by the same name, Paradores de Puerto Rico , which are typically small, one-of-a-kind, locally owned and ...
Francisco López de Gómara introduced the idea of an alliance between Taíno and Caribs in his Historia General de las Indias. [7] The first royal historian tasked with gathering the history of the colony was Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, more than a century after the conflict. [87]
Adjuntas has several nicknames. One is "La ciudad del gigante dormido" ("The city of the sleeping giant"). This is a reference to one of the mountains of the city, which is compared to a "sleeping giant". [82] Another nickname is "La Suiza de Puerto Rico" ("The Switzerland of Puerto Rico") which is a reference to Adjuntas' relatively low ...
Valeria y Maximiliano is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1991. [ 1 ] Leticia Calderón and Juan Ferrara starred as protagonists, while Ana Colchero and Marco Muñoz starred as antagonists.
Vegas Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Quinta Vendrell, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is believed to have been designed by architect Alfredo B. Wiechers Pieretti. It is a two-story balloon framed country house that was built in 1918. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2008.
La verdad oculta (English: The Hidden Truth) [1] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 2006. [2] On Monday, February 27, 2006, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting La verdad oculta weekdays at 9:00pm. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, August 11, 2006.
Romárico Vidal Sotomayor García (4 November 1938 – 1 September 2024) was a Cuban military officer and politician. A member of the Communist Party of Cuba, he served in the National Assembly of People's Power from 2008 to 2013. [1] Sotomayor died in Havana on 1 September 2024, at the age of 85. [2]