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Lares, Puerto Rico, the Glossary

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1827 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Aguadilla–Isabela–San Sebastián metropolitan area

Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Adjuntas is a small mountainside town and municipality in Puerto Rico located central midwestern portion of the island on the Cordillera Central, north of Yauco, Guayanilla, and Peñuelas; southeast of Utuado; east of Lares and Yauco; and northwest of Ponce. Lares, Puerto Rico and Adjuntas, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Aguadilla–Isabela–San Sebastián metropolitan area

The Aguadilla metropolitan area is a United States Census Bureau defined metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in northwestern Puerto Rico.

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Almojábana

Almojábana is a type of bread made with cuajada cheese and corn flour.

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Andalusians

The Andalusians (andaluces) are the people of Andalusia, an autonomous community in southern Spain.

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Antillean Confederation

The Antillean Confederation was the proposed idea of Ramón Emeterio Betances about the need for peoples of the Spanish-speaking Greater Antilles in the Caribbean to unite into an alliance in order to preserve the sovereignty and interests of Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

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Atlantic Time Zone

The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00.

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Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Barrios of Puerto Rico

The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Bartolo, Lares, Puerto Rico

Bartolo is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Bravo Family Foundation

The Bravo Family Foundation is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is "to promote the basic principles of social justice in Puerto Rico." The organization was established in 2017 by Thoma Bravo founder Orlando Bravo in the wake of Hurricane Maria, the worst natural disaster in recorded history to affect Puerto Rico.

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Buenos Aires, Lares, Puerto Rico

Buenos Aires is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Callejones

Callejones is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Callejones Site

Callejones Site is an archaeological site consisting of a ''batey'' (a large clearing where ceremonies took place) located in Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Camuy, Puerto Rico

Camuy is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Lares and San Sebastián; east of Quebradillas; and west of Hatillo. Lares, Puerto Rico and Camuy, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Canary Islanders

Canary Islanders, or Canarians (canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of northwest Africa.

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Captaincy General of Puerto Rico

The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (Capitanía General de Puerto Rico) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, created in 1580 to provide better military management of the island of Puerto Rico, previously under the direct rule of a lone governor and the jurisdiction of Audiencia of Santo Domingo.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.

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Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)

Commonwealth is a term used by two unincorporated territories of the United States in their full official names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English and Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in Spanish, translating to "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico." The term was also used by the Philippines during most of its period under U.S.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Day labor

Day labor (or day labour in Commonwealth spelling) is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.

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Denise Quiñones

Denise Marie Quiñones August (born 9 September 1980) is a Puerto Rican actress, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2001.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

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Ednita Nazario

Edna María Nazario Figueroa (born April 11, 1955) is a Puerto Rican pop singer who has achieved stardom both at home and abroad.

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El Nuevo Día

El Nuevo Día (English: The New Day) is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico.

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Espino, Lares, Puerto Rico

Espino is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Extremadurans

Extremadurans (extremeños, estremeñus, estremenhos) are the native people of Extremadura, in the central-west of Spain.

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Feliz Navidad (song)

"Feliz Navidad" is a Christmas song written and first recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano.

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Fernando Picó

Fernando Picó Bauermeister, S.J. (August 15, 1941 – June 27, 2017) was a Puerto Rican Jesuit, historian and academic.

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Fiestas patronales in Puerto Rico

in Puerto Rico are yearly celebrations held in each municipality of the island.

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First Dominican Republic

The First Dominican Republic, was a predecessor of the currently existing Dominican Republic, and began on 27 February 1844 with the proclamation of the Dominican Republic, and culminated on 18 March 1861 with the annexation of the country to Spain.

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Flag of Cuba

The national flag of Cuba (Bandera de Cuba) consists of five alternating stripes (three blue and two white) and a red equilateral triangle at the hoist, within which is a white five-pointed star.

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Flag of Puerto Rico

The flag of Puerto Rico (Bandera de Puerto Rico), officially known as the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (lit), represents Puerto Rico and its people.

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Geography of Puerto Rico

The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago compromised of one main island, five smaller islands, and numerous islets and cays located between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, east of Hispaniola, west of the Virgin Islands, north of Venezuela, and south of the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.

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Grito de Lares

Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), also referred to as the Lares revolt, the Lares rebellion, the Lares uprising, or the Lares revolution, was the first of two short-lived revolts against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico, staged by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico on September 23, 1868.

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Grito de Lares flag

The Grito de Lares flag (Spanish: Bandera del Grito de Lares), most commonly known as the Lares flag (Spanish: Bandera de Lares), represents the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt of 1868, the first of two short-lived rebellions against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.

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Hacienda Lealtad

(also known as, and once known as is a historic coffee plantation in barrio La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico. A large hacienda, it was founded in 1830, by Juan Bautista Plumey, a French immigrant, who arrived in Puerto Rico with enslaved people. (Juan Bautista Plumey was born in France on September 8, 1797, and named Jean Baptiste Henri Plumey.) It would become the largest coffee plantation in Lares, with over thirty slaves and hundreds of day laborers working the 69 cuerdas of coffee farm.

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Hacienda Los Torres

The Hacienda Los Torres also known as Casona Los Torres in Lares, Puerto Rico, dates from 1846.

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Hatillo, Puerto Rico

Hatillo is a town and municipality located in Puerto Rico's north coast, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Lares and Utuado to the south, Camuy to the west, and Arecibo to the east. Lares, Puerto Rico and Hatillo, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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History of Puerto Rico

The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC.

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Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.

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Independence movement in Puerto Rico

Throughout the history of Puerto Rico, its inhabitants have initiated several movements to gain independence for the island, first from the Spanish Empire between 1493 and 1898 and since then from the United States.

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José Feliciano

José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945) is a Puerto Rican musician.

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La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico

La Torre is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Lares barrio-pueblo

Lares barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Lares, a municipality of Puerto Rico.

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Lares Ice Cream Parlor

The Lares Ice Cream Parlor (Heladería de Lares) is an ice cream store located in the town of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Lares, Lares, Puerto Rico

Lares is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Las Marías, Puerto Rico

Las Marías is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located north of Maricao; southeast of Añasco; south of San Sebastián; east of Mayagüez; and west of Lares. Lares, Puerto Rico and Las Marías, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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List of highways in Puerto Rico

The highway system in Puerto Rico is composed of approximately of roads in Puerto Rico, maintained by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (Spanish: Departmento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) or DTOP.

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List of Puerto Ricans

This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent.

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Lolita Lebrón

Lolita Lebrón (November 19, 1919 – August 1, 2010) was a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes after carrying out an armed attack on the United States Capitol in 1954, which resulted in the wounding of five members of the United States Congress.

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Mariana Bracetti

Mariana Bracetti Cuevas (also spelled Bracety) (July 26, 1825 – February 25, 1903) was a patriot and leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement.

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Maricao, Puerto Rico

Maricao is a town and the second-least populous municipality of Puerto Rico; it is located at the western edge of the Cordillera Central. Lares, Puerto Rico and Maricao, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Minor civil division

A minor civil division (MCD) is a term used by the United States Census Bureau for primary governmental and/or administrative divisions of a county or county-equivalent, typically a municipal government such as a city, town, or civil township.

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Mirasol, Lares, Puerto Rico

Mirasol is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico

The municipalities of Puerto Rico (Spanish: municipios de Puerto Rico) are the second-level administrative divisions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Odilio González

Odilio González (born 5 March 1937), known by his stage name El Jibarito de Lares, is a Puerto Rican singer, guitarist and music composer who has been singing and composing for more than 65 years.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Order of Saint Lazarus

The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, also known as the Leper Brothers of Jerusalem or simply as Lazarists, was a Catholic military order founded by Crusaders during the 1130s at a leper hospital in Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose care became its original purpose, named after its patron saint, Lazarus.

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Pezuela

Pezuela is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Piletas

Piletas is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)

The Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.

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Pueblo, Lares, Puerto Rico

Pueblo is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rican Spanish

Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere.

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Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico Highway 111

Puerto Rico Highway 111 (PR-111) is a highway connecting Aguadilla, Puerto Rico at Puerto Rico Highway 2 and Puerto Rico Highway 115 to Utuado, Puerto Rico at Puerto Rico Highway 140.

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Puerto Rico representative districts

The Puerto Rico representative districts (distritos representativos) refers to the electoral districts in which Puerto Rico is divided for the purpose of electing 40 of the 51 members of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (with the other 11 being elected at-large).

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Puerto Rico senatorial district V

Puerto Rico senatorial district V, also known as the senatorial district of Ponce, is one of the eight senatorial districts of Puerto Rico.

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Ramón Emeterio Betances

Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (April 8, 1827 – September 16, 1898) was a Puerto Rican independence advocate and medical doctor.

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Ramón Ruiz

Ramón Ruiz Nieves is a Puerto Rican politician from the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).

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Río Prieto, Lares, Puerto Rico

Río Prieto is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico.

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Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico

The Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico (Comité Revolucionario de Puerto Rico, CRPR) was founded on January 8, 1867 by pro-independence Puerto Rican exiles such as Segundo Ruiz Belvis, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Juan Ríus Rivera, and José Francisco Basora living at the time in New York City and re-established in 1892 as an affiliate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party under the name Club Borinquen and in 1895 as a segment of said Cuban party under the name Sección de Puerto Rico del Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Puerto Rico Section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party).

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Roberto Pagán Centeno

Roberto Pagán Centeno (born January 11, 1943) is a Puerto Rican politician and former mayor of Lares.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Lares, Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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San Sebastián, Puerto Rico

San Sebastián is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northwestern region of the island, south of Isabela, Quebradillas and Camuy; north of Las Marías; east of Moca and Añasco; and west of Lares. Lares, Puerto Rico and San Sebastián, Puerto Rico are Aguadilla–Isabela–San Sebastián metropolitan area and municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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Sie7e

David Rodríguez Labault (born July 26, 1977) is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and songwriter who performs under the stage name Siete (usually stylized as Sie7e).

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Slavery in colonial Spanish America

Slavery in the Spanish American viceroyalties was an economic and social institution which existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself.

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Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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Taíno

The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.

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Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico

Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico are assigned under the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).

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Tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

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Tourism in Puerto Rico

Tourism in Puerto Rico attracts millions of visitors each year, with more than 5.1 million passengers arriving at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in 2022, a 6.5% increase from 2021, the main point of arrival into the island of Puerto Rico.

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Treaty of Paris (1898)

The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish–American War.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lares,_Puerto_Rico

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1827 establishments in the Spanish Empire

Aguadilla–Isabela–San Sebastián metropolitan area

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