28 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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San Juan (Spanish for “Saint
John “) is the
capital city and most populous
municipality in the
Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico , an
unincorporated territory of the
United States . As of the
2020 census , it is the
57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by
Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it
Ciudad de Puerto Rico (“City of Puerto Rico”, Spanish for
rich port city ).
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27 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General , Environment
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Desecheo (
Spanish : Isla Desecheo) is a small uninhabited
island of the
archipelago of
Puerto Rico located in the northeast of the
Mona Passage ; 13 mi (21 km) from
Rincón on the west coast (
Punta Higüero ) of the main island of Puerto Rico and 31 mi (50 km) northeast of
Mona Island . It has a land area of 0.589 sq mi (377 acres; 153 ha; 1.53 km²). Politically, the island is administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the
Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge , but part of
Barrio Sabanetas of
Mayaguez .
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26 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General , Environment
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Mona (
Spanish : Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the
Puerto Rican archipelago , after the main island of Puerto Rico and
Vieques . It is the largest of three islands in the
Mona Passage , a strait between the
Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the others being
Monito Island and
Desecheo Island . It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles (11 km by 7 km), and lies 41 mi (66 km) west of Puerto Rico, of which it is administratively a part. It is one of two islands that make up the
Isla de Mona e Islote Monito barrio in the municipality of
Mayagüez .
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25 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General
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Isla Culebra (
Snake Island ) is an island,
town and
municipality of
Puerto Rico and geographically part of the
Spanish Virgin Islands . It is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of the Puerto Rican mainland, 12 miles (19 km) west of
St. Thomas and 9 miles (14 km) north of
Vieques . Culebra is spread over 5 barrios and
Culebra Pueblo (Dewey) , the main town and the administrative center of the island. Residents of the island are known as
culebrenses . With a population of 1,792 as of the 2020 Census, it is Puerto Rico’s least populous municipality.
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24 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General
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Vieques, officially Isla de Vieques, is an
island and
municipality of
Puerto Rico , in the northeastern
Caribbean , part of an island grouping sometimes known as the
Spanish Virgin Islands . Vieques is part of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and retains strong influences from 400 years of
Spanish presence in the island.
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23 October 2023 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General , Bon voyage , Theme Weeks , UNESCO World Heritage
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Puerto Rico (
Spanish for
rich port ), is a
Caribbean island and
unincorporated territory of the
United States with official
Commonwealth status. It is located in the northeast
Caribbean Sea , approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of
Miami ,
Florida , between the
Dominican Republic and the
U.S. Virgin Islands , and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as
Mona ,
Culebra , and
Vieques . It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its
capital and
most populous city is
San Juan .
Spanish and
English are the
official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates.
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