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Puerto Rico [note 8] (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), [20] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [note 9] is an archipelagic island U.S. territory comprised of the eponymous main island of Puerto Rico and 142 smaller islands, cays, and islets, including Vieques, Culebra, Mona, Desecheo, Caja de Muertos, Palominos, and Icacos, located between the Greater and Lesser Antilles in ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Map by USGIS. Puerto Rico has 17 lakes, all man-made, and more than 50 rivers, most of which originate in the Cordillera Central. [77] Rivers in the northern region of the island are typically longer and of higher water flow rates than those of the south, since the south receives less rain than the central and northern regions.
Map of the 902 barrios (based on PR GIS data from November 16, 2017) The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. [1] Puerto Rico's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios (English: wards or boroughs or neighborhoods) and, as of 2010, there were 902 of ...
The Cordillera Central (English: "Central Mountain Range") is the principal and only mountain range in the main island of Puerto Rico, comprising three subranges, the central Cordillera Central, the southeastern Sierra de Cayey, and the northeastern Sierra de Luquillo. Bordered by the extensive Northern Karst Belt in the northwest and ...
Caribe.Net was founded in 1994 and was the first internet service provider in Puerto Rico. The company was the first to offer the following services on the island: Commercial internet access network; Individual dial-up TCP/IP service; SLIP connectivity service; PPP connectivity; ISDN; ITU-T V.90; 24-hour technical support; Online subscription ...
Internet Society Puerto Rico; Federal government grants to expand broadband Internet access in Puerto Rico, Broadband USA. Puerto Rico summary, National Broadband Map, 31 December 2012. Radio Puerto Rico; El Nuevo Dia; WIPR-TV 6 & WIPM-TV 3
Tolled. This highway is the longest tolled freeway in Puerto Rico. PR-53. Autopista Dr. José Celso Barbosa. Fajardo through Ceiba to Yabucoa, and then Guayama to Salinas. 65 mph (105 km/h) Maunabo tunnels constructed in October 2008. The segments between Yabucoa and Maunabo still incomplete. PR-60.