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    There are more than 200 shipwrecks in the territorial waters surrounding Puerto Rico, which include the main island and smaller ones (such as Isla de Mona...
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    Puertorriqueña, San Juan Puerto Rico. p. 34. Walter Cardona Bonet. Shipwrecks in Puerto Rico's History. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Institute of Puerto Rican Culture...
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    The Puerto Rico campaign was the American military sea and land operation on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. The offensive began...
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  • ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards. The NHL ships, shipwrecks, and shipyards are distributed across 31 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the...
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    Puerto Rico. She is now the only known Spanish shipwreck in US waters from the war. Her wreck site, in 1,700 feet (520 m) of water off Dorado, Puerto...
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    Juan Ponce de León (category Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico)
    conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid...
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  • within 362 Years, from 1493 to 1855. Andres Poey (1855) https://www.shipwrecks.es/shipwrecks/capitanes-almirantes-y-naufragos/hernando-escalante-fontaneda/...
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    The Abandoned Shipwrecks Act is a piece of United States legislation passed into law in 1988 meant to protect historic shipwrecks in US waters from treasure...
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    Ramón Power y Giralt (category Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico)
    representation of Puerto Rico before the Cortes of Cádiz, the parliamentary government of Spain at the time. Power was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Joaquín...
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    This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico is along the north coast, north plains, and north slopes of the Cordillera...
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  • Florida Classics Library. p. 29. Cardona Bonet, Walter A. (1989), Shipwrecks in Puerto Rico's history, 1502-1650, vol. I, Model Offset Printing, p. 371, ASIN B0006ES9D0...
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    landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème of colonial Puerto Rico. Campeche was born in San Juan, colonial Puerto Rico. His...
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  • Antonio Sedeño (category Spanish period of Trinidad and Tobago)
    Cardona (1989). Shipwrecks in Puerto Rico's History, Volume 1. p. 76. Stark, James Henry (1897). Stark's Guide-book and History of Trinidad: Including...
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  • SS El Faro (redirect from SS Puerto Rico)
    Co. as Puerto Rico, the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and, finally, El Faro in 2006. She was lost at sea with her entire crew of 33 on October...
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    This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost...
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    entries. Puerto Rico portal Cuba portal Dominican Republic portal Haiti portal Caribbean portal Jamaica portal List of Notable Puerto Ricans List of Notable...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in the 17th century includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost between (and including) the years 1601 to 1700. 20 July — Gift...
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    Raul Julia (category Male actors from San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    University of Puerto Rico, where he joined the Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. Julia continued acting in local plays and nightclubs as he earned a Bachelor of Arts...
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    the history of that page for full attribution. Juan Gonzalez-Colon, President, Sociedad Guaynia de Arqueologia e Historia, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Luis M. Rodriguez-Morales...
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    Bermuda Triangle (category Geography of San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    1948 disappearance of an Airborne Transport DC-3 charter flight en route from Puerto Rico to Miami; and the January 1949 disappearance of Star Ariel, another...
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    aground. Puerto Rico had been under attack by US Navy forces under the command of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson since just before the Bombardment of San...
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    Hurricane Klaus (1984) (category Hurricanes in Puerto Rico)
    northeast movement throughout much of its path. After making landfall on extreme eastern Puerto Rico, it passed to the north of the Leeward Islands, resulting...
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    Borinquen (1930) (category Shipwrecks of the California coast)
    SS Borinquen, the Taino language name for Puerto Rico, was a passenger liner launched 24 September 1930 and delivered to the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies...
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    Ramón Acha Caamaño (category Military personnel from San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    general in the Spanish Army. As Captain in charge of the Spanish Artillery in San Juan, he defended Puerto Rico against U.S. attack during the Spanish–American...
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  • Isleños (category Puerto Rican people of Spanish descent)
    descendants of Canarian settlers and immigrants to present-day Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Texas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and other parts of the...
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    Retrieved May 30, 2018. "Ascertainment of the estimated excess mortality from Hurricane María in Puerto Rico" (PDF). www.publichealth.gwu.edu. Retrieved...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in the 1740s includes some sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1740s. 1740 began on March 25.[Note 1] ^ Until 1752, the...
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  • above as Columbus Landing Site) San Juan National Historic Site, in Puerto Rico War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam Other National Park...
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    Bayahíbe (category Beaches of the Dominican Republic)
    fishing village in 1874 by Juan Brito and his family, who came from Puerto Rico, the town is now a tourist destination. Bayahíbe is an indigenous word...
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    USCGC Sagebrush (category Historic American Engineering Record in Puerto Rico)
    rest of her service life home-ported in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from which she maintained floating and fixed aids-to-navigation (AtoN) in Puerto Rico, the...
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