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Vieques (/ v i ˈ eɪ k ə s / ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation:), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together with Culebra, it is geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Vieques is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Puerto Real is a barrio in the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,654. Its population in 2010 was 1,654. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Monte Pirata (Spanish for "pirate mountain"), at 960 feet (290 m) of elevation, is the highest mountain in the island of Vieques. [1] The mountain is located in the western portion of the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge and it is the site of an old US Navy communications site, now operated by the Department of Homeland Security]. [2]
The Vieques, Puerto Rico, Naval Training Range was a United States naval facility located on the island of Vieques, about 5 miles east of mainland Puerto Rico. Starting in November 1941, the navy used the range for military exercises.
President Roosevelt ordered the creation of the base in 1940. In 1941, $50 million (equivalent to $1036 million in 2023) was appropriated to develop a protected anchorage in the sea area between Puerto Rico and Vieques, an area later named Roosevelt Roads by Navy Secretary Frank Knox on 15 May 1941. [5]