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    Vieques (/viˈeɪkəs/ ; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjekes]), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together...
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    Isla Culebra (Spanish pronunciation: [kuˈleβɾa], Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together with Vieques, it is geographically...
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    island-municipalities of Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra are mostly known as islas municipio (island municipality), with Vieques being also popularly known among...
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    The Isla Vieques dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus inigoi) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. It is endemic to Vieques and western Culebra...
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    airport plays an important part in the Vieques economy. For decades, the airport has been the hub of Vieques Air Link, and also a destination for a number...
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    The Vieques, Puerto Rico, Naval Training Range was a United States naval facility located on the island of Vieques, about 5 miles east of mainland Puerto...
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    Airport. In 1968, Vieques Air Link added a flight to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. In 1980 Fajardo Airport in Fajardo was built and Vieques Air Link started...
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    Puerto Rico (redirect from Isla del encanto)
    smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, Mona, Desecheo, and Caja de Muertos. Of these five, only Culebra and Vieques are inhabited year-round. Mona...
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    Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Vieques is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable...
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    coast near Ceiba, Puerto Rico, toward the Vieques Passage. Fishing boats were not the only ones to cross the Vieques Passage, but also ocean-going ships. In...
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    Inagua least gecko Sphaerodactylus inigoi Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 - Isla Vieques dwarf gecko Sphaerodactylus intermedius Barbour & Ramsden, 1919 - Mantanzas...
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    main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km2]), and Culebra (10 sq mi [26 km2]) are inhabited. Mona...
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    Island (Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest...
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    SIG, ICAO: TJIG, FAA LID: SIG), also commonly known as Isla Grande Airport, is an airport in Isla Grande, a district in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto...
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  • (Sphaerodactylus nicholsi) Puerto Rican dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis) Isla Vieques dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus inigoi) Roosevelt's dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus...
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    including the nature reserves of the La Cordillera in the Sonda de Vieques (Vieques Sound) and Media Luna (''half moon'') in Lajas, the wildlife refuge...
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    cease all live bombing on Vieques by March 2003. Fort Bundy was affected by the protests, because part of it was in Vieques. After Sanes' death, there...
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    unincorporated American territory of Puerto Rico, which are officially named Vieques and Culebra, but are generally called the Spanish Virgin Islands or Puerto...
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    The Vieques Ferry or Lancha de Vieques, is a ferry system that carries passengers and cargo from Ceiba, Puerto Rico to Vieques, Puerto Rico and vice versa...
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    of Ponce Playa. Together with Cardona, Ratones, Morrillito, Isla del Frio, Gatas, and Isla de Jueyes, Caja de Muertos is one of seven islands ascribed...
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  • wreckage was ever found. 1977 Vieques Air Link crash: On December 19, 1977, five people died and five survived when a Vieques Air Link plane from St. Croix...
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    "Visit Playa Caracas on Vieques, With a Car or Not". www.puertoricodaytrips.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12. "Playa Caracas (Isla de Vieques) - 2021 All You Need...
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    throughout the main island of Puerto Rico. It might have once resided on Isla Vieques, and a single specimen believed to be a vagrant was collected on St....
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    Pirata - Isla de Vieques Forum - Tripadvisor". www.tripadvisor.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12. "Hiking in Vieques Island, Puerto Rico | Vieques". Retrieved...
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    elevation of 2,200 feet (670 meters). They have also been found in Isla Vieques, Isla Culebra, and the Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico portal Biology portal...
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    Fajardo) Cayo Diable, Vieques, 18°07′20″N 65°18′29″W / 18.12228°N 65.30812°W / 18.12228; -65.30812 (Cay Diablo, Vieques) Cayo Don Luis, 17°56′38″N...
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    naval complex on the eastern side that would go cross the Vieques Strait and connect Vieques and Culebra to mainland Puerto Rico through the Ensenada Honda...
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    Florida is a barrio in the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,821. Florida was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto...
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  • was the Piper Cherokee 6 with flights between the islands of Culebra and Vieques. Six months after initial operation they acquired their first twin engine...
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    democratically elected governor, and was known as Isla Verde International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Isla Verde) until it was renamed in February 1985...
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