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Puerto Rico - Sports

Baseball was one of the first sports to gain popularity in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Baseball League serves as the only active professional league, operating as a winter league. No Major League Baseball franchise or affiliate plays in Puerto Rico, however, San Juan received the Montreal Expos for several series in 2003 and 2004 before they moved to Washington, DC and became the Washington Nationals. The Puerto Rico national baseball team has participated in the World Cup of Baseball winning one gold, four silver and four bronze medals and the Caribbean Series, winning fourteen times. Famous Puerto Rican baseball players include Roberto Clemente and Orlando Cepeda, enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973 and 1999, respectively.


 

Boxing, basketball, and volleyball are considered popular sports as well. Wilfredo Gómez and McWilliams Arroyo have won their respective divisions at the World Amateur Boxing Championships. Other medalists include José Pedraza, who has a silver medal, as well as three boxers that finished in third place, José Luis vellon, Nelson Dieppa and McJoe Arroyo. In the professional circuit, Puerto Rico has the third-most boxing world champions and its the global leader in champions per capita. These include Miguel Cotto, Félix Trinidad, Wilfred Benítez and Gómez among others. The Puerto Rico national basketball team joined the International Basketball Federation in 1957. Since then, he has won more than 30 medals in international competitions, including gold in three FIBA ​​Americas Championships and the 1994 Goodwill Games. August 8, 2004, became a landmark date for the team when it became the first team to defeat the United States in an Olympic tournament since the integration of National Basketball Association players. Winning the inaugural game with scores of 92-73 as part of the 2004 Summer Olympics organized in Athens, Greece. Baloncesto Superior Nacional acts as the basketball league senior professional in Puerto Rico, and has experienced success since its beginning in 1930.
Different practices of this sport have had some success, including the "Puerto Rico All Stars" team, which has won twelve world championships in unicycle basketball. Organized streetball gathered some exposition, with teams like "Puerto Rico Street Ball" competing against established organizations including the Arecibo and AND1 Mixtape Tour Team Captains. Consequently, practitioners of this style have earned participation in international teams, including Orlando "El Gato" Meléndez, who became the first Puerto Rican born athlete to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. Orlando Antigua, whose mother is Puerto Rican, made history in 1995 when he became the first Hispanic and the first non-black in 52 years to play the Harlem Globetrotters.
The Puerto Rico Islanders Football Club, founded in 2003, plays in the Division of the United Soccer Leagues First, which constitutes the second tier of football in North America. Puerto Rico is also a member of FIFA and CONCACAF. In 2008, connects the archipelago's first unified, the Puerto Rico Soccer League, was established. Secondary sports include Professional wrestling and road running. The World Wrestling Council and International Wrestling Association are the largest wrestling promotions in the main island. World Best 10K, held annually in San Juan, has been ranked among the 20 most competitive races globally.
Puerto Rico has representation in all international competitions including the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Pan American Games, the Caribbean World Series, and the Central American and Caribbean Games. Puerto Rican athletes have won six medals in Olympic competition, the first one in 1948 by boxer Juan Evangelista Venegas. In March 2006 San Juan Hiram Bithorn Stadium hosted the opening round as well as the second round of the World Baseball Classic newly formed. The Games of Central America and the Caribbean were held in 1993 in Ponce and will be held in 2010 in Mayagüez.

Famous Puerto Rico

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News From of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico manifest desire for change in political status

Puerto Ricans were manifested in a consultative referendum in favor of changing the island's status as a territory associated with the United States, preferring to become the 51st U.S. state, according to official results released on Wednesday.


In the same vote, Gov. Luis Fortuno, favorable to the status of State, was defeated in re-election bid.

The referendum on Tuesday presented two questions.

The first was whether Puerto Rico should maintain its current status of the autonomous community (nearly 54 percent said they do not). Under this status, Puerto Ricans are considered U.S. citizens but can not vote for president, and only maintain a non-voting representative in the House of Representatives.

The second question asked the voter, regardless of the answer to the first question, chose among three options: become a U.S. state, become an independent country or have a sovereign free association with the United States.

The state option won with 66 percent of the vote, followed by the association sovereign, with 33 percent. The independence was less than 6 percent of preferences. This count does not take into account the blank votes, which were almost a third of the total. Taking them into account, support for full incorporation is nearly 45 percent support.

The referendum does not have the force of law - is advisory only. His call was supported by Fortuno, the New Progressive Party.

On Wednesday, he conceded defeat in the race for the island's government for Senator Alejandro Garcia Padilla, the Peoples Democratic Party, in favor of free association with Washington.

With 96 percent of votes counted, García Padilla had 47.85 percent of the vote against 47.04 percent Fortuno. The main challenges of the new governor will be to restore fiscal balance, promote the resumption of growth, reduce unemployment and fight crime.

The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, then a Spanish colony, a war in 1898. In 1952, the island was elevated to the status of community self-government, and since then four times the local electorate manifested by keeping this situation - albeit with a margin shrinking.

Any change in the status of Puerto Rico must be approved by the U.S. Congress.

News From of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico presses U.S. for inclusion as 51st state

The governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, will hold a special meeting to press the adoption of the resolution which states that the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama will honor the results of a recent referendum that would change the political status of the island.



Puerto Rico has agreed to become a U.S. state in a referendum held on November 6. For the decision to consolidate and Puerto Rico becomes more an American state, the U.S. Congress has yet to approve it. Fortuño noted that Congress and Obama promised to respect the results of the referendum.


Divided into two parts, the referendum questioned whether the island should change the 114-year relationship with the U.S.. Nearly 54% - or 922,374 people - have chosen to change the terms of the partnership, as 46% - or 786,749 people - opted to maintain the status quo.


The second question concerned the model of partnership with the U.S.. The option of accepting the sovereignty Yankee as another State was voted with 61% of the votes. The association of sovereign free, allowing greater autonomy, received 33% of the indications and independence, only 5%.

Typical Puerto Rican Culture

The culture of Puerto Rico is the result of a great number of influences from indigenous peoples native and foreign immigration, both in the past and in the present. The contemporary cultural expressions of Puerto Ricans demonstrate the rich history of the island and help create an identity of the country, that comes from the fusion of diverse cultures: Taino (native Indians), Spaniards, Africans, other Europeans, Asians, Arabs and North -americanos.1.

The co-association with the United States changed directly Puerto Rican civil behavior, including culturally. The apparent structure and luxurious coastal life that is grown in the United States, as the character of Miami, mark the current behavior of the people of this island, resembling even the aggravation of social inequalities. Despite the "Americanization", the people of Puerto Rican culture carries its original, like Catholicism and customs of indigenous stamp.

 

 

Typical Music of Puerto Rico

The music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. The most conspicuous musical sources have been Spain and West Africa, although many aspects of Puerto Rican music reflect origins elsewhere in Europe and the Caribbean and, in the last century, the USA. Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially indigenous genres like bomba to recent hybrids like reggaeton. Broadly conceived, the realm of "Puerto Rican music" should naturally comprise the music culture of the millions of people of Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the mainland USA (and Hawaii), and especially in New York City. Their music, from salsa to the boleros of Rafael Hernández, cannot be separated from music culture of Puerto Rico itself. Nevertheless, this entry will emphasize music culture as it has flourished on the island; readers should naturally consult other entries for genres like salsa.

Early music

Although it is customary in some circles to say that Puerto Rican music is a product of three cultural influences—Spanish, African, and Taino Indian--, it is not possible to attribute any aspects of Puerto Rican music to the long-extinct Tainos. Spanish colonists described the Taino's areito festivals, featuring dancers and singers accompanied by slit drums and scrapers, but there is no evidence that any of this music influenced that of the island's subsequent inhabitants. While the güiro scraper may have derived from the Tainos, the rhythms commonly played on it today probably came into vogue long after Taino language and culture had effectively died out.
Music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly it included Spanish church music, military band music, and diverse genres cultivated by the jíbaros (peasants, mostly of Spanish descent) and enslaved Africans and their descendants. While these latter never constituted more than 11% of the island's population, they contributed some of the island's most dynamic musical features.
In the 19th century Puerto Rican music begins to emerge into historical daylight, with notated genres like danza being naturally better documented than folk genres like jíbaro music and bomba.
The African people of the island used drums made of carved harwood covered with an untreated rawhide on one side, commonly made from goatskin. A popular word derived from creole to design this drum was shukbwa, that literally means 'trunk of tree'. In other islands like Guadalupe, this type of hollowed trunk is called bwa fuyé.

Folk music

If the term "folk music" is taken to mean music genres that have flourished without elite support, and have evolved independently of the commercial mass media, the realm of Puerto Rican folk music would comprise the primarily Hispanic-derived jíbaro music, the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, and the essentially "creole" plena. As these three genres evolved in Puerto Rico and are unique to that island, they occupy a respected place in island culture, even if they are not currently as popular as contemporary musics like salsa or reggaeton.

Jíbaro music

Jíbaros—small farmers of primarily Hispanic descent—constituted the overwhelming majority of the Puerto Rican population until the mid-twentieth century. They were traditionally celebrated for their self-sufficiency, hospitality, and love of song and dance. Their most popular instruments were relatives of the Spanish vihuela, especially the cuatro—now with ten strings in five double courses—and the lesser known triple. A typical jíbaro group nowadays might feature a cuatro, guitar, and percussion instrument such as the güiro scraper and/or bongo. Lyrics to jíbaro music are generally in the décima form, consisting of ten octosyllabic lines in the rhyme scheme abba, accddc. Décima form derives from 16th-century Spain. Although it has largely died out in that country (except the Canaries), it took root in various places in Latin America—especially Cuba and Puerto Rico—where it is sung in diverse styles. A sung décima might be pre-composed, derived from a publication by some literati, or ideally, improvised on the spot, especially in the form of a “controversia” in which two singer-poets trade witty insults or argue on some topic. In between the décimas, lively improvisations can be played on the cuatro.
The décimas are sung to stock melodies, with standardized cuatro accompaniment patterns. About twenty such song-types are in common use. These are grouped into two broad categories, viz., seis (e.g., seis fajardeño, seis chorreao) and aguinaldo (e.g., aguinaldo orocoveño, aguinaldo cayeyano). Traditionally, the seis could accompany dancing, but this tradition has largely died out except in tourist shows. The aguinaldo is most characteristically sung during Christmas season, when groups of revelers (parrandas) go from house to house, singing jíbaro songs and partying. The aguinaldo texts are generally not about Christmas, and also unlike Anglo-American Christmas carols, they are generally sung solo rather than chorally. In general, Christmas season is a time when traditional music—both seis and aguinaldo—is most likely to be heard.
Jíbaro music came to be widely marketed on commercial recordings in the twentieth century, and brilliant singer-poets like Ramito (Flor Morales Ramos, 1915–90) are well documented. However, jíbaros themselves were becoming an endangered species, as agribusiness and urbanization have drastically reduced the numbers of small farmers on the island. Many jíbaro songs dealt accordingly with the vicissitudes of migration to New York. Jíbaro music has in general declined accordingly, although it retains its place in local culture, especially around Christmastime, and there are many cuatro players, some of whom have cultivated prodigious virtuosity.

Bomba

Historical references indicate that by the decades around 1800 plantation slaves were cultivating a music and dance genre called bomba. By the mid-twentieth century, when it started to be recorded and filmed, bomba was performed in regional variants in various parts of the island, especially Loíza, Ponce, San Juan, and Mayagüez. It is not possible to reconstruct the history of bomba; various aspects reflect Congolese derivation, though some elements (as suggested by subgenre names like holandés) have clearly come from elsewhere in the Caribbean. French Caribbean elements are particularly evident in the bomba style of Mayagüez, and striking choreographic parallels can be seen with the belé of Martinique.
In its call-and-response singing set to ostinato-based rhythms played on two or three squat drums (barriles), bomba resembles other neo-African genres in the Caribbean. Of clear African provenance is its format in which a single person emerges from an informal circle of singers to dance in front of the drummers, engaging the lead drummer in a sort of playful duel; after dancing for a while, that person is then replaced by another. While various such elements can be traced to origins in Africa or elsewhere, bomba must be regarded as a local Afro-Puerto Rican creation. Its rhythms (e.g. seis corrido, yubá, leró, etc.), dance moves, and song lyrics (in Spanish, with some French creole words in eastern Puerto Rico) collectively constitute a unique Puerto Rican genre.
In the 1950s, the dance-band ensemble of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera performed several original songs which they labelled as "bombas"; although these bore some similarities to the sicá style of bomba, in their rhythms and horn arrangements they also borrowed noticeably from the Cuban dance music which had long been popular in the island. As of the 1980s, bomba had declined, although it was taught, in a somewhat formalized fashion, by the Cepeda family in Santurce, San Juan, and was still actively performed informally, though with much vigor, in the Loíza towns, home to then Ayala family dynasty of bomberos. Bomba continues to survive there, and has also experienced something of a revival, being cultivated by folkoric groups elsewhere in the island and in New York City. Women have also played a role in its revival, as in the case of the all-female group Alma Moyo. Like other such traditions, bomba is now well documented on sites like YouTube, and on a few ethnographic documentary films.

Plena

Around 1900 plena emerged as a humble proletarian folk genre in the lower-class, largely Afro-Puerto Rican urban neighborhoods in San Juan, Ponce, and elsewhere. Plena subsequently came to occupy its niche in island music culture. In its quintessential form, plena is an informal, unpretentious, simple folksong genre, in which alternating verses and refrains are sung to the accompaniment of round, often homemade frame drums called panderetas (like tambourines without jingles), perhaps supplemented by accordion, guitar, or whatever other instruments might be handy. The plena rhythm is a simple duple pattern, although a lead pandereta player might add lively syncopations. Plena melodies tend to have an unpretentious, "folksy" simplicity. Some early plena verses commented on barrio anecdotes, such as "Cortarón a Elena" (They stabbed Elena) or "Allí vienen las maquinas" (Here come the firetrucks). Many had a decidedly irreverent and satirical flavor, such as "Llegó el obispo" mocking a visiting bishop. Some plenas, such as "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" and "Santa María," are familiar throughout the island. In 1935 the essayist Tomás Blanco celebrated plena—rather than the outdated and elitist danza—as an expression of the island's fundamentally creole or mulatto racial and cultural character. Plenas are still commonly performed in various contexts; a group of friends attending a parade or festival may bring a few panderetas and burst into song, or new words will be fitted to the familiar tunes by protesting students or striking workers. While enthusiasts might on occasion dance to a plena, plena is not characteristically oriented toward dance.
In the 1920s-30s plenas came to be commercially recorded, especially by Manuel "El Canario" Jimenez, who performed old and new songs, supplementing the traditional instruments with piano and horn arrangements. In the 1940s Cesar Concepción popularized a big-band version of plena, lending the genre a new prestige, to some extent at the expense of its proletarian vigor and sauciness. In the 1950s a newly envigorated plena emerged as performed by the smaller band of Rafael Cortijo and vocalist Ismael "Maelo" Rivera, attaining unprecedented popularity and modernizing the plena while recapturing its earthy vitality. Many of Cortijo's plenas present colorful and evocative vignettes of barrio life and lent a new sort of recognition to the dynamic contribution of Afro-Puerto Ricans to the island's culture (and especially music). This period represented the apogee of plena's popularity as a commercial popular music. Unfortunately, Rivera spent much of the 1960s in prison, and the group never regained its former vigor. Nevertheless, the extraordinary massive turnout for Cortijo's funeral in 1981 reflected the beloved singer's enduring popularity. By then, however, plena's popularity had been replaced by that of salsa, although some revivalist groups, such as Plena Libre, continue to perform in their own lively fashion, while "street" plena is also heard on various occasions.

Bolero

The bolero originally derived from Cuba, but by the 1920s-30s it was being not only enjoyed but also composed and performed by Puerto Ricans, including such outstanding figures as Rafael Hernández and Pedro Flores. There are no distinctively "Puerto Rican" features—such as singing "lelolai" or playing the cuatro—in their boleros, but it would be pointless to go on regarding the bolero solely as a "Cuban" genre; it is, of course, a Cuban genre, but since the 1920s it has also been an international genre, including a Puerto Rican one.

Merengue

In the 1990s the most popular dance music in the island was merengue, as performed by visiting Dominican bands and a few locals such as Olga Tañon. Similar disagreements have been voiced about local rock bands, such as Fiel a la Vega, Puya, and Konfrontazion, that flourished in the 1980s-90s.

Guaracha and Salsa

Salsa is another genre whose form derived overwhelmingly from Cuba—especially Cuban dance music of the 1950s—but which in the 1960s-70s became an international genre, cultivated with special zeal and excellence in Puerto Rico, and by New York Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans and Newyoricans, indeed, rescued this music, which had been stagnating and isolated in Cuba itself in the 1960s, giving it new life, new social significance, and many new stylistic innovations. Salsa is the name acquired by the modernized form of Cuban-style dance music that was cultivated and rearticulated from the latter 1960s by Puerto Ricans in New York and, subsequently, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. While salsa soon became an international genre, thriving in Colombia, Venezuela, and elsewhere, New York and Puerto Rico have remained its epicenters. Particularly prominent in the island itself were El Gran Combo, Sonora Ponceña, and Willie Rosario, as well as the more pop-oriented "salsa romántica" stars of the 1980s-90s. (For further information see the entry on "salsa music.")
Other popular newyorican and puertorican exponents have been: Tito Puente (timbales and vibes player), Tito Rodríguez (guaracha and bolero singer), pianists Eddie Palmieri, Richie Ray and Papo Lucca, conguero Ray Barreto, trombonist and singer Willie Colón, and singers La India, Andy Montañez, Bobby Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Ismael Rivera, Tito Nieves, Pete El Conde Rodríguez and Gilberto Santa Rosa, among others.

Pop

Much music in Puerto Rico falls outside the standard categories of "Latin music" and is better regarded as constituting varieties of "Latin pop." This category would include, for example, Ricky Martin; the boy-band Menudo (with its changing personnel).

Rock

Rock performers (primarily heavy metal) such as Puya, Mattador, Los Miserables, Fiel a la Vega and La Secta Allstar have a constant local audience.

Reggaeton

Puerto Rico is perhaps the single biggest center for production of reggaeton. The roots of reggaeton lie in the 1980s "reggae en español" of the Panamanian artist El General and certain songs by Puerto Rican rapper Vico C. In the early 1990s reggaeton coalesced as a more definitive genre, using the "Dem Bow" riddim derived from a Shabba Ranks song by that name, and further resembling Jamaican dancehall in its verses sung in simple tunes and stentorian style, and its emphasis—via lyrics, videos, and artist personas—on partying, dancing, boasting, "bling," and sexuality rather than weighty social commentary. While reggaeton may have commenced as a Spanish-language version of Jamaican dancehall, in the hands of performers like Tego Calderón, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and others, it soon acquired its own distinctive flavor and today might be considered the most popular dance music in the Spanish Caribbean, surpassing even salsa.

Art music

Classical music

The island hosts two main orchestras, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico. The renowned Casals Festival takes place annually in San Juan, drawing in classical musicians from around the world

Typical Dances of Pueto Rico

Merengue is a type of music and dance in which one foot marks time and the other is dragged on the ground. And quite popular in many Latin countries such as Puerto Rico, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia and is the national dance of the Dominican Republic. It is also widely known in Angola as its origin is African and was carried by slaves from Africa (Angola) 1 for the new territories of the Americas. The most popular style of merengue is usually played by a wide range of instruments including various saxophones, accordions, trumpets and keyboards, with singers entertaining. Level choreography, merengue features easy and quick steps, danced by couples entwined.

 

 

PUERTO RICO - CUISINE

 The Puerto Rican cuisine today is born of the fusion of Spanish, African and Taino (name of the Indians who inhabited the islands). These influences have contributed to creating a kitchen autochthonous and personality, characterized by the wide variety of native ingredients and products used.

 The basis of the known Creole cuisine has its roots in Taino, who cultivated a variety of roots, such as cassava, maize, potato and iautia. Cassava was used in the preparation of vinegar and cassava bread, cassava pie he ate up every day, and you can still enjoy the island.

 The Spaniards landed foods such as onions, garlic, cilantro, eggplant, chickpeas, the sum and coconut. For their part, African slaves brought to the island your cooking style and foods such as gandules and green banana. The African population also collaborated in the development of coconut, even today, is a staple food, very popular in Puerto Rico.

 All these ingredients and ways were evolving and combining all generations, to make way for the current Puerto Rican cuisine, which differs from the rest of the Caribbean in an increased presence of Spanish roots. Your main course is rice and beans and seafood.

 The fries are the favorite to take amotras taste. They sell in shacks and also has been incorporated into the daily menus of all hotels. The most famous fries are called tostones (fried green bananas and mashed), which usually serve with rice.

 Other well known dishes are alcapurrias (made of iautía and green bananas stuffed with minced crab or chicken), the pies, the bacalaitos (made from salted cod). The surulhos corn or surulhitos (made with corn flour and cheese served with rosé sauce) and stuffed with pope, mashed sweet potatoes that admit anyone filling and are fried until crispy. Another traditional entrees is boiled green bananas and troceada, which is usually combined with ingredients avinagrados flavors.

 In addition to the inputs, the kitchen offers nice variety of dishes they serve complementary inputs. The most frequently used to monitor the daily meals are white rice and beans, refried beans and tomato sauce and cilantro. One of the most famous dishes is the mofongo, which is the basis of cooked mashed fried plantains with garlic and pork rinds sections. The mofongo can also be served with soup - beef or chicken - or beef fried.

 Among the main courses highlights the Puerto Rican national soup with chicken and rice, which is called the soup kitchen. This soup also can be served as input and can be done with shrimp and lobster. Most traditional soups are based on a combination of delicious vegetables roots own country, meats and sauces sofreado.

 Many of the main dishes of the island include basic ingredients like veal and pork. One of the most famous is the pig, a national dish that is often prepared feasts. Dishes daily basis are made in the meat, which can be: cane with onion, or roast pork or prepared with yellow rice and gandules.

 Poro Rico has also great variety of fish and maricos. The dishes prepared to base maricos are for the most part, Spanish heritage. The fish saw as preparing for sofreado and marinating. Although you will not find on the island, one of the typical foods made for centuries is made the basis of cod.

 Among the most consumed desserts is the green papaya with sweet lechoza or guava hull with white cheese, sweet potatoes, bread pudding, rice and ice cream with sweet tropical fruit such as tamarind and flan vanilla, coconut and cheese.

Major Cities: Ponce

Ponce is a municipality of Puerto Rico, the largest in area. It is the third population after San Juan and Bayamón, the most important city in the south of the island.

His name was given in honor of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León.

In its vicinity is the International Airport Mercedita.

Major Cities: Mayaguez

Mayagüez is the eighth-largest municipality of Puerto Rico first. Also known as "La Sultana del Oeste" (The Sultanate of the West), "Ciudad de las Aguas Puras" (City of Pure Waters), or "Ciudad del Mango" (City of the Mango) on April 6, 1894 the Crown Spanish, gave it the formal title of "Excellent City of Mayagüez" 2 3, Mayagüez is located in the center of the west coast of the island of Puerto Rico. It is both a principal city of the Mayagüez Metropolitan Area and the Mayagüez Metropolitan Area - San Germán - Cabo Rojo.

Major Cities: Carolina

Carolina is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the metropolitan area of San Juan. It is highly industrialized and populated.

It was founded on January 31, 1857, with the name of San Fernando de la Carolina.

Major Cities: Caguas

It is a municipality of Puerto Rico founded in 1775. It is divided into 11 districts: Bairoa, Río Cañas, Cañabon​​, Cañaboncito, Thomas Castro, Beatriz, San Antonio, Turabo, Borinquen, Pueblo and San Salvador. It has an estimated population of 142,556 for 2004 and is located in a valley in the center-east of the island, less than 20 miles from the capital of San Juan. Known as "The Valley of Turabo" and "Creole City". Its name originates from "Caguax". The Gentile is "cagueños"

Major Cities: Bayamón

Bayamón is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the hills of central North Island. The north faces Toa Low and Cataño, south to Comerío and Aguas Buenas, the west with Low Toa, Toa Alta, Naranjito and the latter with Guaynabo.

Major Cities :San Juan

San Juan

San Juan (IPA: [San xwan]) or St. John 5 6 officially City Municipality Capital St. John the Baptist (in Spanish: Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista) is the capital and most populous municipality of Puerto Rico. According to the 2000 census, the municipality has a population of 434 374 inhabitants, and the city 421 958. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico City). The capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city in the United States established by the Europeans, followed by St. Augustine, Fla., and the second oldest in the Americas to be established by the Europeans, after Santo Domingo, in the Republic Dominicana.7 Several buildings historical are located in San Juan, among the most remarkable defensive fortifications of the old city, the forts San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest official residence in continuous use in the Americas.

Today, San Juan is one of the most important ports of Puerto Rico, and 8 industrial center, financial, cultural and tourist center of the island. The population of the metropolitan area was 2,450,292 inhabitants in the 2000 census, ie, more than 60% of the population lives and works in this área.2. The city has been home to numerous major sporting events such as the Pan American Games 1979 Games Central American and the Caribbean 1966, one of the venues of the World Baseball Classic in 2006 and 2009, and the Caribbean Series.

Originally, the city of San Juan was called Puerto Rico, while the whole island was called San Juan Bautista. The capital of the island and the names were later changed accidentally.

University

1/14Portal Universia
 The Portal Universia presents specific content, academic, several Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela) and Europe (Spain and Portugal). Provides information for selected grade levels or functions (pre-college, college, post-college, faculty, administrators and researchers), news, courses, recommendations, dissemination of information on theses, and other scholarships.Available in: Spanish / Portuguesehttp://www.universia.net/


2/14American University of Puerto Rico - AUPR
 The American University of Puerto Rico (AUPR) is a private institution of higher education, nonprofit, committed to the development of students. Its mission is to provide liberal and humanistic education that promotes comprehensive training and learning for life. The site contains catalog with various information about the University, academic programs, such as bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration, arts and science, education and technology, and continuing education, library, documents, calendars, activities and news.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.aupr.edu/


3/14Inter American University of Puerto Rico
 The Inter American University of Puerto Rico is a private institution of higher education. Founded in 1912, offers degree programs and graduate. The other website provides institutional information, information to students, as list of courses offered, information about university life and services offered to students.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.inter.edu/


4/14Central University of Bayamón - UCB
 Founded in 1961, the Central University of Bayamón (UCB) is an autonomous institution of higher education and nonprofit, which offers courses in liberal arts, sciences, health, education, business development and technology. The site features information about UCB, colleges, distance education, departments, services, publications, virtual library online catalog, calendars and news, in addition to presenting the Center for Professional Development and Technical (CEDEPT).Available in: Spanishhttp://www.ucb.edu.pr/


5/14Central University of the Caribbean - UCC
 Founded in 1976, the Central University of the Caribbean (UCC) was the first private school of medicine in Puerto Rico. The site contains information about the UCC, college, continuing education, research activities in the area of ​​health sciences, library online catalog, services and events calendar.Available in: Englishhttp://www.uccaribe.edu/


6/14University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo - UPRA
 The site of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPRA) brings institutional, academic departments (Administration, Biology, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Communication, Education, Nursing, Spanish, Physical Chemistry, Humanities, English, Mathematics and Systems) , library, magazines published by UPRA, online services, academic calendar, many blogs and news, in addition to presenting the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies (disappointment).Available in: Spanishhttp://upra.edu/


7/14University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón
 The University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón is a public institution of higher education that aims to be a center for the dissemination and creation of technological knowledge, scientific and humanistic. Offers baccalaureate degrees in business administration, biology, computer science, physical education, electronics, engineering, pedagogy and systems. The site has information about the University, academic offerings, departments, Resource Center, continuing education, research, publications, news, events and student manual.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.uprb.edu/


8/14University of Puerto Rico in Humacao
 The University of Puerto Rico in Humacao was founded in 1962 and its mission is to contribute effectively to the development of ethical, cultural and intellectual of the country and, in particular, of the eastern region, through education, creation, scientific and humanistic as well as the dissemination of knowledge. The site contains student manual with information about the institution, academic offerings, continuing education and professional studies, departments, library, special projects such as centers and programs, calendar of activities, in addition to presenting the Astronomical Observatory.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.uprh.edu/


9/14University of Puerto Rico - Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
 The Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez University of Puerto Rico is a multicultural educational entity created in 1903. Its structure includes academic and administrative units, Library, Centre for Research and Development, Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Athletic Activities, Center for Academic Publications (CEPA), etc.. The site contains information about the University, admission sections, administration, academics, students, services, sports and research, as well as campus map, news and events.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.uprm.edu/


10/14University of Puerto Rico - Recinto de Río Piedras
 The Recinto de Río Piedras, University of Puerto Rico is an educational institution that offers courses in architecture, communication, administration, education, natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The site contains information on colleges, schools and academic programs, continuing education, research center, projects, libraries, magazines, theater, and online catalog of the library system, services, calendars, campus map, video, news, and events area dedicated to students.Available in: Spanishhttp://www.uprrp.edu/