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What remains of the Antigua Central La Plata sugar refinery on PR-125 in Guatemala. Guatemala was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until 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 an unincorporated territory of the United States.
It is believed the island is only some 4,000 years old, and stone art left on the island attests it has been visited by man over milennnia. [6] Taíno natives made frequent trips to the island on fishing expeditions, and when they were defeated by the Spanish during the 1511 battle of Spanish–Taíno War for Borikén, the natives attempted a retreat to the Caja de Muertos but shortly ...
The island, sometimes erroneously termed a key (or, cay), is located 5.2 mi (8.4 km) south of the Puerto Rican mainland and is part of Barrio Playa [4] [5] ward of the Ponce, Puerto Rico, municipality. It is located 590 feet (180 meters) off the southwest point of Caja de Muertos island and has an area of just 0.015 square miles (0.039 km 2).
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
Dia de los Muertos, holiday celebrated in several Latin American countries serving as a remembrance of the Dead Pan de Muerto, type of bread baked during the Dia de los Muertos season; Caja de Muertos, Puerto Rico, island south of Puerto Rico; Cerro El Muerto, mountain peak in the Andes on border of Argentina and Chile (21,457 feet high)
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The island of Caja de Muertos is the main geographical feature of the reserve; it is located 4.8 nautical miles south of the coast of Puerto Rico. Morrillito, with an area of 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km 2), is a very small and rocky key located adjacent to Caja de Muertos. It is also part of the Playa barrio of the municipality of Ponce.
Diego de Torres Vargas was allowed to circumvent this strict prohibition and in 1647 wrote Descripción de la Ciudad e Isla de Puerto Rico ("Description of the Island and City of Puerto Rico"). This historical book was the first to make a detailed geographic description of the island.