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58 unusual facts about Puerto Rico


A Quien Pueda Interesar

"Septiembre, Río Piedras" is derived from several political and ideological struggles that occurred in the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras where civilians were the subject of abuse and attacks by the police.

Accidents and incidents at John F. Kennedy International Airport

;19 October: An Eastern Airlines flight from Idlewild International Airport (the former name of JFK) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, operated by Lockheed L-749A Constellation N119A crashed on take-off.

Advil

This effort allowed for a second design and installation in Guayama, Puerto Rico of an initial 20 new systems.

Albert Grajales

Grajales was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962, and at the age of six his family and him moved to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

Alpha Kappa Pi

Alfa Kappa Pi - a professional fraternity with chapters in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

Angel Mendez

Angel Mendez' parents — Antonio Méndez Pomales, a native of Fajardo and Martina Rivera García from Naguabo — moved from Puerto Rico to New York City seeking a better life.

Arawakan languages

Taíno, commonly called Island Arawak, was spoken on the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.

Assacumet

In 1606 Gorges sent an expedition to America under Capt. Henry Challoung (also known as Chalowns and Chalon), with Assacumet and Manida, to the West Indies and Puerto Rico.

Aurora Levins Morales

Levins Morales was born February 24, 1954 in Indiera Baja, Maricao, Puerto Rico.

Awards and decorations of the National Guard

The following is a list of National Guard decorations, as issued by each of the fifty United States; Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia.

Bahamas at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games

The XXIst Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico from July 17, 2010 to August 1, 2010.

Bertram Tracy Clayton

He resigned in 1888, intending to work as a civil engineer, but went on to serve with Troop C, New York Volunteer Cavalry (Brooklyn's Own) during the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico, winning distinction.

Canarian cuisine

This is the father to all mojos of Latin America, especially Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, due to heavy Canarian emigration, and have also influenced the cuisines of the non-Hispanic Caribbean islands.

Carl Werntz

At the conclusion of the war he and his wife went to the Caribbean, - to Jamaica and Puerto Rico.

Come On Pilgrim

It includes two songs partly sung in Spanish (Vamos and Isla de Encanta) which drew upon some of Francis's experiences in Puerto Rico (Isla de Encanta is an alteration of the island's nickname, Isla del Encanto meaning Isle of Enchantment).

Domingo Marrero Navarro

His first pastorship was in 1930 at the Methodist Church of Garrochales, Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Dr. Juan Sanchez Acevedo Coliseum

Juan Sanchez Acevedo Coliseum is a Coliseum in Moca, Puerto Rico.

EGADE Business School

Since its creation, the school requires every applicant to achieve a minimum pass mark at its own academic aptitude test for postgraduate studies (Prueba de Admisión a Estudios de Posgrado, PAEP); an instrument designed and maintained by academics of the Institute (with some guidance provided by the technical director of The College Board office in Puerto Rico).

El Toro Wilderness

In descending order of land area the wilderness is located in parts of the municipalities of Río Grande, Naguabo, Las Piedras, and Canóvanas.

Foster V. Brown

After leaving Congress Brown resumed the practice of law until he was appointed attorney general of Puerto Rico on May 10, 1910.

Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre (January 5, 1865 - February 16, 1944) was an American military officer who served for many years as Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, responsible for federal administration of the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

Fredesvinda García

Fredesvinda García Valdés, known always as Freddy, (Camagüey 1935 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 31 July 1961) was a Cuban female singer of high quality.

Hacienda Grande culture

The Hacienda Grande culture flourished in Puerto Rico from 250 BC to 300 AD.

Hernando de Miranda

The group of ships captained Hernando de Miranda and Pedro de Valdes ended up in San Germán, Puerto Rico town.

Hipólito Sánchez Rodríguez

Hipólito Sánchez Rodríguez (1853 - February 4, 1947) - Married with Ignacia Agosto and known by the people as "Don Polo Sánchez", he was the donor of the gold altar of the Catholic Church, actually located in the Cathedral of San Juan.

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus

It was built in San Juan due to the large success of the Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico.

Javier Cardona

Javier Peterson Cardona (born September 15, 1975 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball catcher.

Jon Bilbao

Juan Manuel Bilbao Azkarreta was born on October 31, 1914 in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

José Antonio Dávila

Dávila was born and raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico into a literary family; he received both his primary and secondary education here and went to high school in Santurce, San Juan.

José J. Benítez Díaz

After that, Benítez was the owner of Benítez Sugar Company in Vieques.

José Nadal Power

José Rafael Nadal Power was born in the district of Santurce, in San Juan on December 8, 1973.

Juan Cruz

Juan Aubín Cruz Manzano (born 1948), Puerto Rican politician and mayor of Manatí since 1977

Luis F Soto

Luis F Soto, born in Hatillo, Puerto Rico, is a Film and Television director working and living in Los Angeles, California.

Manela Bustamante

Manela Bustamante, born Manuela Bustamante (Havana, Cuba, November 14, 1924 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 12, 2005)

Manuel Olivieri Sanchez

Olivieri Sanchez was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, when the island was still a Spanish possession.

Mapy Cortés

Mapy Cortés (March 1, 1910 – August 2, 1998), born Maria del Pilar Cordero in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was an actress who participated in many films during the Mexican film industry's golden era.

Mateo de Angulo

De Angulo helped out his Colombian team to take the trophy in the 800 m freestyle relay at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2014

The 59th Annual Miss Universe Puerto Rico pageant was held at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center, Santurce, Puerto Rico, on October 3, 2013 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

National Adoption Day

More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November, in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care.

New Wrestling Stars

NWS will relaunch on Sunday March 29, 2009 in Aguada, Puerto Rico at the All-Star Court and it was a great event with plans to hold more events and secure a TV deal.

Paradisus Puerto Rico

Paradisus Puerto Rico is the first all-inclusive resort in Puerto Rico, located in the municipality of Río Grande in the Coco Beach area.

Puerto Rican Quail-Dove

Remains of the Puerto Rican Quail-Dove were unearthed in the caves Cueva Clara and Cueva Catedral near Morovis, in the cave Cueva Toraño at Utuado and in a kitchen midden near Mayagüez on Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Highway 18

PR-18 is a freeway in Puerto Rico, which is also known as Expreso Las Américas. It runs from its north end in at its intersection with PR-22 (known as Expreso de Diego) in San Juan to its south end in Río Piedras where it intersects with PR-1.

Puerto Rico Highway 40

Puerto Rico Highway 40, or PR-40, is an urban road in Hato Rey.

Puerto Rico Highway 47

Puerto Rico Highway 47, also known as Calle de Diego, is an urban road in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Highway 52

It runs from PR-1 in southwest Río Piedras and heads south until it intersects with highway PR-2 in Ponce.

Puerto Rico Natural Resources Ranger Corps

6.3, El Cinco neighborhood, in San Juan.

Rey Sánchez

Rey Francisco Guadalupe Sánchez (born October 5, 1967 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball infielder.

Robert S. Folkenberg

Robert Stanley Folkenberg, (born January 1, 1941 in Santurce, Puerto Rico), served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999.

Robert Traylor

On May 11, 2011 Traylor was found dead at his apartment in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.

Robert Tyndall

The Spanish-American War erupted the following year, and he served with the 27th Indiana Volunteers in Puerto Rico.

Senadores de San Juan

The team was sold in 2004 and subsequently relocated to Arecibo.

Señor Muerte / Señor Suerte

The first character to use these names was Ramon Garcia, who was born in Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

In 1948, the Michigan congregation began its first missionary work outside the continental United States when the Sisters opened a mission in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

Thomas A. Davis

During the Spanish-American War he served as a Captain of the 6th US Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Sixth Immunes, which was mustered at Knoxville, Tennessee and saw service in Puerto Rico.

Unanue family

At the age of seventeen, Unanue migrated to San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, in search of employment opportunities and established a small food distribution business.

Wild 90

The Puerto Rico-born boxer José Torres appeared as the man with the barking dog and Beverley Bentley (Mailer’s wife) played the woman with the knife.

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

She began writing at an early age in school newsletters and newspapers and won drawing and essay competitions at the Colegio San Vicente Ferrer in Cataño.


1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

1985 in organized crime

Gambino boss Paul Big Pauly" Castellano and nine others were accused of operating an international auto-theft ring that shipped stolen cars to Kuwait and Puerto Rico, among other destinations.

Aleksander Wolszczan

Working with Dale Frail, Wolszczan carried out astronomical observations from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico which led them to the discovery of the pulsar PSR B1257+12 in 1990.

Ana María Polo

Later, they moved to Puerto Rico where she participated in different musicals including Godspell, Jubilee and Show Boat in addition to singing with the chorus of Jubilee, which was invited by Pope Paul VI to sing at St. Peter’s Basilica as part of the celebration of the 1975 Holy Year.

Camden Children's Garden

The facility includes indoor attractions such as the Philadelphia Eagles Four Seasons Butterfly House, Plaza de Aibonito, a Puerto Rican tropical greenhouse exhibit, and Benjamin Franklin’s Secret Garden and Workshop.

Camp Las Casas

Camp Las Casas was a United States military installation established in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1904.

Carmen Nydia Velázquez

Velázquez performed for a three month season at the Marriott Hotel, in Condado, San Juan Puerto Rico, (June–September) 2007, and the show was broadcast through WORO-TV, channel 13.

Ciudad Seva

Ciudad Seva is a web site founded on December 12, 1995, by Puerto Rican author Luis López Nieves.

Courier 1B

After completing its first orbit, a message from US President Dwight Eisenhower to the United Nations was transmitted from the Deal Test Site, an off-base transmission facility of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and relayed to a ground station in Puerto Rico.

Creature from the Haunted Sea

The film was shot in Puerto Rico back-to-back with two other Corman productions, The Last Woman on Earth and Battle of Blood Island, from a script that had previously been filmed as Naked Paradise and Beast from Haunted Cave.

Digital line graph

DLGs are distributed at three different scales: large-scale, which normally correspond to the USGS 7.5- by 7.5-minute, 1:24,000 and 1:25,000-scale topographic quadrangle map series, 1:63,360-scale for Alaska and 1:30,000-scale for Puerto Rico; intermediate scale, which are derived from the USGS 30- by 60-minute, 1:100,000-scale map series; and small-scale, which are derived from the USGS 1:2,000,000-scale sectional maps of the National Atlas of the United States.

Donna Theodore

Donna Theodore (born July 25, 1941) is an American actress and singer who first came to attention as a headliner at many famous nightclubs during the 1960s including the Copacabana, The Fountainebleau Hotel, the Fairmont Hotel, and the El San Juan in Puerto Rico.

Emerson Esnal Hernández

He qualified for the 2010 Central American Games in Puerto Rico, but withdrew due to injury, and in the same year finished 24th in the 50 km racewalk at the World Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Fuddruckers

As of 2011, Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, four in Puerto Rico and ten in Saudi Arabia.

Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money

The song "Looking Through the Eyes of a Child" was covered by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne on his album Atado a Tu Amor, as "Soy como un niño" (Spanish for "I'm Like a Child")

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Guaynabo Fluminense FC

ground = Jose "Pepito" Bonano Stadium
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|

Ismael Cruz Córdova

Ismael Enrique Cruz Cordova (born April 7, 1987, Puerto Rico), known by his stage name Ismael Cruz Córdova is a Broadway, television, stage and film actor who gained national attention playing Mando on Sesame Street.

José Bardina

He was popular not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, after the telenovelas produced by Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión reached its peak during the 1970s decade.

Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico's Independence

Rubén Berríos, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), informed of a plan to create committees of solidarity with Puerto Rico throughout the dozens of countries of the region, which are spread throughout two continents (North America and South America, as well as in the Caribbean Basin region).

Lee Nailon

His international experience includes playing for Adecco Milano in Italy (1999-00), Bnei HaSharon in Israel (2006–07; 2010–present), Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in Russia (2007–08), Al-Riyadi in Lebanon, Leones de Ponce (2009) and Piratas de Quebradillas in Puerto Rico (2010).

Lucía Maya

Lucía Maya (born 1953 in Santa Catalina Island, California) is a Mexican painter, sculptor and lithographer whose work has been displayed at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon and the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art.

Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai'i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.

Paropeas achatinaceum

Although it has not been reported from anywhere else in the Neotropics, it was recently (December 2002) intercepted during preclearance of a shipment of Eryngium from Puerto Rico to Georgia, USA.

Pig frog

The species has been introduced and established itself in China, Andros Island and New Providence Island in the Bahamas, as well as Puerto Rico.

Progress Island U.S.A.

The commercial short, which is only 13 minutes long, explains that Puerto Rico is "American in every respect" except for its "360 days of sunshine," due to the results of Operation Bootstrap.

Rebecca Wight

Rebecca Wight -- a student, of Iranian and Puerto Rican heritage, who was working on her Master's Degree in Business Administration -- and 32-year-old Claudia Brenner -- a Jewish, Manhattan-born architecture student -- were partners for two years, after meeting over breakfast while both were students at Virginia Tech.

Richard Jeter

He has since played with CSKA Moscow in Russia, Ukraine (Azovmash), Puerto Rico, Townsville Crocodiles in Australia, Manawatu Jets in New Zealand National Basketball League now he is currently signed with Hoverla in Ukraine.

Rob Cordemans

During the first round of the tournament held at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cordemans entered two separate games against the Dominican Republic in middle relief.

Souvenir de Porto Rico

Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico.

Spartanburg Day School

Examples of special studies activities include trips to Puerto Rico, Italy, Toronto, and working with Habitat for Humanity.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park's second age began with a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as other Latin American countries.

Systemax

On January 6, 2008, Systemax Inc. announced an agreement on the acquisition of the Miami-based CompUSA brand, trademarks, and e-commerce business, and as many as 16 CompUSA retail outlets in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico.

Vaneza Pitynski

Vaneza Pitynski (born "Vaneza Leza Pitynski" on September 1, 1988 in Whittier, California, USA) is an American former actress and singer of German-Russian-Puerto Rican descent.

Walter McJones

Walter McJones (born: Walter Mc Kown Jones) (May 22, 1883 - January 10, 1944) founded the municipality of Villalba in Puerto Rico and was the first Mayor of Villalba between 1917 and 1919.

WIVV

Licensed to Vieques, Puerto Rico, it serves part of Puerto Rico, large areas of the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles.

Xu Guangchun

He has been chosen to host high-level foreign delegations, including an August, 2009 visit to Zhengzhou by seven lieutenant governors from Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.

Zoé Laboy

Laboy has also worked as Professor in the Faculty of Criminal Justice of the Universidad del Turabo and the Metropolitan University in Puerto Rico.