Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
e. This is a list of Puerto Rico locations by per capita income. In 2017, Puerto Rico had a per capita income of $12,081 — lower than any state and one of the lowest in the United States. [1] In 2017, Puerto Rico had a median household income of $19,775 — the lowest of any state or territory in the United States. [1]
List of years in Puerto Rico. Categories: Puerto Rico. History of the Caribbean by dependent territory. History of insular areas of the United States. History by island. Hispanic and Latino American history. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
General Archives of Puerto Rico. The General Archives of Puerto Rico was formally created by Law 5 of December 8, 1955 and placed under the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture which had been created six months before. The main function of the entity is to safeguard and conserve the most important inactive documents of Puerto Rico's territorial ...
History. Morovis and its barrios were founded in 1818 by Juan Evangelista Rivera and Juan José de Torres. Pasto was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899 ...
Helen Rodríguez Trías [note 1] (July 7, 1929 – December 27, 2001) was an American pediatrician, educator and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association (APHA), a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the APHA, and a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal.
S. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Categories: Port cities in the Caribbean. Categories by city in Puerto Rico. Port settlements in insular areas of the United States. Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico.
The coat of arms of Puerto Rico was first granted by the Spanish Crown on November 8, 1511, making it the oldest heraldic achievement still currently in use in the Americas. [1] The territory was ceded by Spain to the United States in accordance to the peace treaty that ended the Spanish–American War in 1899, after which two interim arms were ...
In Puerto Rico, the highest rainfall total was 2.4 inches (61 mm) in Rio Piedras. August 22–23 – Tropical Storm Dean dropped heavy rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 12.7 inches (322 mm) in Salinas. The passage of Dean resulted in widespread flooding in eastern and southern Puerto Rico, collapsing two bridges and one road.