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Río Grande is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the eastern edge of the Northern Coastal Valley, north of Las Piedras, Naguabo and Ceiba; east of Loíza and Canóvanas and west of Luquillo.[1]

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  1. 68 relations: Antonio Bachour, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Time Zone, Barracuda, Barrios of Puerto Rico, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Census, Ciénaga Alta, Ciénaga Baja, Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Eduard Rivera Correa, El Nuevo Día, El Toro (Sierra de Luquillo), El Yunque (Puerto Rico), El Yunque National Forest, Estancia, Fiestas patronales in Puerto Rico, Guzmán Abajo, Guzmán Arriba, Hacienda, Herreras, History of Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, Hyatt, Jiménez, Río Grande, Puerto Rico, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, List of highways in Puerto Rico, List of Puerto Ricans, Loíza, Puerto Rico, Luis Daniel Rivera, Luis Pizarro, Luquillo, Puerto Rico, Mameyes II, Mayor, Minor civil division, Municipalities of Puerto Rico, Naguabo, Puerto Rico, National forest (United States), Ovidio de Jesús, Pedro A. Rodríguez, Puerto Rican amazon, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Highway 3, Puerto Rico Highway 66, Puerto Rico senatorial district VIII, Rafael Quintero (diver), Raymond Burgos, Río Espíritu Santo, Río Grande (Puerto Rico), ... Expand index (18 more) »

  2. Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico
  3. San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area

Antonio Bachour

Antonio Bachour (1975 in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican pastry chef.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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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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Barracuda

A barracuda is a large, predatory, ray-finned fish known for its fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour.

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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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Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

Canóvanas is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico, located in the northeastern region, north of Juncos and Las Piedras; south of Loíza; east of Carolina; and west of Río Grande. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Canóvanas, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico and San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area.

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Ceiba, Puerto Rico

Ceiba is both a small town and a municipality in northeast Puerto Rico. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Ceiba, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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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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Ciénaga Alta

Ciénaga Alta is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Ciénaga Baja

Ciénaga Baja is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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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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Eduard Rivera Correa

Eduard Rivera Correa (born June 11, 1953) is a Puerto Rican politician and a former mayor of Río Grande.

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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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El Toro (Sierra de Luquillo)

El Toro (Spanish for the bull) is 3,526 feet (1,075 m) high and is the highest peak in the Sierra de Luquillo mountains in eastern Puerto Rico.

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El Yunque (Puerto Rico)

El Yunque or El Yunque Peak (Spanish: Pico El Yunque) (Taíno: Yukiyu) is a mountain located fully within the boundaries of the El Yunque National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service, which is the only tropical rainforest under the U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction.

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El Yunque National Forest

El Yunque National Forest (Bosque Nacional El Yunque), formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest (or Bosque Nacional del Caribe), is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico.

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Estancia

An estancia or estância is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep.

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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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Guzmán Abajo

Guzmán Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Guzmán Arriba

Guzmán Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Hacienda

A hacienda (or; or) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.

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Herreras

Herreras is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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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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Hyatt

Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacation properties.

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Jiménez, Río Grande, Puerto Rico

Jiménez is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Las Piedras, Puerto Rico

Las Piedras, is a town and municipality in east Puerto Rico located in the central eastern region of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of Canóvanas and Río Grande; east of Juncos and San Lorenzo; and west of Naguabo and Humacao. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Las Piedras, 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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Loíza, Puerto Rico

Loíza (Spanish pronunciation) is a town and municipality on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, north of Canóvanas; east of Carolina, Puerto Rico; and west of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Loíza, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico and Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico.

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Luis Daniel Rivera

Luis Daniel Rivera Filomeno is a Puerto Rican politician from the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).

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Luis Pizarro

Luis Pizarro (born October 26, 1962) in Río Grande, Puerto Rico is a retired boxer from Puerto Rico, who competed in the men's bantamweight (– 54 kg) and featherweight division (- 57 kg) during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Luquillo, Puerto Rico

Luquillo is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northeast coast, northwest of Fajardo; and east of Rio Grande. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Luquillo, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico and Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico.

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Mameyes II

Mameyes II is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, 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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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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Naguabo, Puerto Rico

Naguabo is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the east coast of the island bordered by the Vieques Passage, north of Humacao; south of Río Grande and Ceiba; and east of Las Piedras. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and Naguabo, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico.

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National forest (United States)

In the United States, national forest is a classification of protected and managed federal lands that are largely forest and woodland areas.

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Ovidio de Jesús

Ovidio de Jesús Vargas (6 February 1933 – 3 October 2011) was a Puerto Rican sprinter.

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Pedro A. Rodríguez

Pedro Alfonzo Rodríguez González (born September 25, 1968) is a Puerto Rican politician from the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).

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Puerto Rican amazon

The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata), also known as the Puerto Rican parrot (Puerto Rican Spanish: cotorra puertorriqueña) or iguaca, is the only extant parrot endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico, and belongs to the Neotropical genus Amazona.

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Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico Highway 3

Puerto Rico Highway 3 (PR-3) at nearly 100 miles long, is the second-longest highway on Puerto Rico (after PR-2).

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Puerto Rico Highway 66

Puerto Rico Highway 66 (PR-66) is a main tollway which parallels Puerto Rico Highway 3 going from the city of Carolina, Puerto Rico via a 3 loops cloverleaf interchange with PR-26 and PR-3, a major exit in the form of a Trumpet interchange in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico and ending in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico with an intersection of PR-3.

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Puerto Rico senatorial district VIII

Puerto Rico senatorial district VIII, also known as the senatorial district of Carolina, is one of the eight senatorial districts of Puerto Rico.

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Rafael Quintero (diver)

Rafael Roberto Quintero Díaz (born July 24, 1994) is a Puerto Rican diver.

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Raymond Burgos

Raymond Burgos (born November 29, 1998) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball pitcher in the San Francisco Giants organization.

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Río Espíritu Santo

The Río Espíritu Santo (Río Espíritu Santo) is a river of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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Río Grande (Puerto Rico)

The Río Grande is a river in the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico that flows through the El Yunque National Forest and the town of Río Grande.

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Río Grande barrio-pueblo

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

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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. Río Grande, Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto Rico are municipalities of Puerto Rico, Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico and San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area.

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San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area

The San Juan metropolitan area is a United States Census Bureau defined metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in northeastern Puerto Rico centered around the city of San Juan.

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Sierra Luquillo

The Sierra Luquillo (Spanish: Sierra de Luquillo) is a mountain range located in the northeastern part of Puerto Rico.

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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 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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St. Regis Hotels & Resorts

St.

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Streetball in Puerto Rico

Linked to the popularity of basketball in Puerto Rico, the recurrence of streetball (street basketball) has become intertwined with the practice of the sport in all of its levels.

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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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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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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an American hospitality company based in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States.

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Zarzal, Río Grande, Puerto Rico

Zarzal is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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2004 Puerto Rican general election

General elections were held in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

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See also

Populated coastal places in Puerto Rico

San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area

References

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

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