Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico A self-governing island commonwealth of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, 111 miles long and 39 miles wide, Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the Greater Antilles, slightly smaller than Jamaica. Like many islands in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico has a history of European colonial rule, in this case by the Spanish Crown, making its population ethnically mixed and diverse. Around 1000 CE the Taíno Indians—hunter-gatherers who were part of the Arawakan-speaking…