adventure guide to puerto rico

[...]... ordinary for Puerto Ricans to help a stranger as to help a friend or family member If you come to Puerto Rico with an open mind and a generosity of spirit, you will surely meet people who will invite you into their lives, in one way or another Accept the invitation, if you’re so inclined It’s the best way to learn about who Puerto Ricans are SIGN LANGUAGE It’s often said that Puerto Ricans love to talk... alligator relatives were brought to Puerto Rico as pets during the 1970s They snapped at the fingers and toes of their owners until they were turned loose into Puerto Rico s biggest freshwater lagoon, Laguna Tortuguero Here they have flourished and found their way onto the menus of a few local eateries If you see one, don’t try to pet it At the other end of the spectrum, the coquí is without a doubt Puerto. .. fair game A July 11, 1898, article on the editorial page of The New York Times put it bluntly: “We are not pledged to give Puerto Rico independence, and she will have done nothing to entitle her to it at our hands.” THE PUERTO RICAN FLAG Notice that the Puerto Rican flag is the exact same design as the Cuban flag, only with inverted colors (the flag of Puerto Rico has a blue triangle and red and white... the West Indies, they landed on Puerto Rico around AD 600, according to archeologists Also of the Arawak group, they were better at agriculture and crafting tools than their Igneri predecessors and established a rich culture in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola that would last nearly 1,000 years Most historians agree that the Tainos numbered about 30,000 in Puerto Rico when Christopher Introduction ern Hemisphere... about Puerto Ricans an opposing truth is likely to emerge About four million people live on the island, and nearly two million more Puerto Ricans reside in the United States, leading some to say that there are actually two Puerto Ricos Like US residents, Puerto Ricans shop at JCPenney and Macy’s, eat at fast-food restaurants, and drive their sport utility vehicles to the mall Yet they take pains to set... Status Issue n 13 WILL PUERTO RICO BECOME THE 51st STATE? If Puerto Ricans vote to join the United States, with full rights and responsibilities of a state, the matter of statehood would then pass to the US Congress The Economy To oversimplify the 500-year development of the Puerto Rican economy, it has gone from sugar to rum, from rum to women’s underwear and from women’s underwear to Valium Sounds like... joined forces with Cuban independence leaders in exile EL GRITO DE LARES (The Cry of Lares) In 1868, Ramón Emeterio Betances traveled to Santo Domingo to purchase weapons and supplies for a Puerto Rican uprising, but was delayed in reaching the island Unable to contain themselves, between 600 and 1,000 Creoles from western Puerto Rico took over the town of Lares with what arms they had, and proclaimed an... 1,500 evangelical churches that have sprung up in Puerto Rico since the Americans arrived in 1898 Today, 8% of Puerto Ricans are members of Protestant congregations, and 3% practice a different belief system, which includes Jews and Muslims Fewer than 3% of Puerto Ricans state that they are not religious n Spirituality & the Occult To a large extent, Puerto Rico is more a spiritual nation than a religious... slaves to do the backbreaking labor necessary to establish the colony For protection from future attacks, the settlement of Caparra was moved to a peninsula in the San Juan bay (now Old San Juan), which they called Puerto Rico (meaning “rich port”) DID YOU KNOW? The island of Puerto Rico was originally called San Juan, and the city of San Juan was called Puerto Rico A confused Spanish mapmaker switched... Revolutions toppled Colonial governments from Argentina to Mexico, and by the middle of the 1820s the once-glorious Spanish empire in the Americas had dwindled to two Caribbean islands – Cuba and Puerto Rico n The Hammock Swingers A few things seemed to happen all at once Spanish purchase of Puerto Rican goods nearly ground to a halt The United States, newly free of English rule, had money to spend And . Information 352 Touring & Sightseeing 354 Adventures 358 Where To Stay 365 Where To Eat 368 Nightlife 371 iv n Adventure Guide to Puerto Rico Culebra 371 History 373 Flora & Fauna 375 Getting. “We are not pledged to give Puerto Rico independence, and she will have done nothing to entitle her to it at our hands.” THE PUERTO RICAN FLAG Notice that the Puerto Rican flag is the exact same. some- what today, many Americans still know shockingly little about the Carib- bean commonwealth that is joined at the hip to their country. It’s too bad. The history of Puerto Rico – from Taino Eden to