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This partial list of city nicknames in Puerto Rico compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
العربية; Brezhoneg; Català; Español; Euskara; فارسی; Frysk; گیلکی; 한국어; Հայերեն; Ido; বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া ...
Category: Puerto Rican people by city. 14 languages. ... People from San Juan, Puerto Rico (4 C, 114 P) People from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico (20 P)
Juana Díaz barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Juana Díaz, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 3,977. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican Boricua [53] Spanish: Puertorriqueño, puertorriqueña Rhode Island: Rhode Islander Swamp Yankee [54] South Carolina: South Carolinian Sandlapper [55] Spanish: Sudcarolino, sudcarolina South Dakota: South Dakotan Spanish: Sudakotense Tennessee: Tennessean Volunteer, Butternut [56] Big Bender Texas: Texan
Demographically, municipalities in Puerto Rico are equivalent to counties in the United States, and Puerto Rican municipalities are registered as county subdivisions in the United States census. [2] Statistically, the municipality with the largest number of inhabitants is San Juan , with 342,259, while Culebra is the smallest, with around 1,792.
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 a territory of the United States. In August of 1898, Stephen Crane , a war correspondent for Hearst's New York Journal , single-handedly took possession of the town before an American regiment arrived.
Mayagüez (Spanish pronunciation: [maʝaˈɣwes], locally [maʝaˈweʔ]) is the ninth-largest [4] municipality in Puerto Rico.It was founded as Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Township of Our Lady of Candelaria), and is also known as La Sultana del Oeste (The Sultaness of the West), Ciudad de las Aguas Puras (City of Pure Waters), or Ciudad del Mangó (Mango City).