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Official Government Seal of
Puerto
Rico
The Island of Puerto Rico is
100 miles long and 35 miles
wide.
The average climate of Puerto
Rico is 73 degrees in Winter
and 76 degrees in Summer.
Christopher Columbus discov-
ered Puerto Rico called Bor-
inquen by the Indians, on
November 19, 1493.
Puerto Rico has all year round
sports -
golf, swimming, horse racing,
dog racing, basketball, cock
fighting, yachting, fishing,
baseball, tennis,
etc.
Puerto Rico became a posses-
sion of the United States as
a result of the Spanish-
American War in 1898.
KIRDES EST
The first governor of Puerto
Rico was Juan Ponce de Leon,
discoverer of Florida, whose
remains
Cathedral in San Juan.
in
the old
The people of Puerto Rico were
made citizens of the United
States in 1917. Since 1948
elect their own governor.
The population of Puerto Rico
is about 2,200,000 inhabi-
tants.
ROMER
The Island of Puerto Rico in
1950 purchased an average
of $1,000,000.00 a day from
the United States.
The largest cities of Puerto
Rico are San Juan, Ponce and
Mayaguez.
Spanish is the predominating
language of Puerto Rico, but
English is generally spoken.
The city of San Juan was one
of Spain's most strongly for-
tified places in the New
World.
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