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The following is a list of some of the surnames of the first Corsican families who immigrated to the Adjuntas, Yauco, Guayanilla, and Guánica areas of Puerto Rico in the 19th Century. This list was compiled by genealogist and historian Colonel (USAF Ret.) Héctor A. Negroni who has done exhaustive research on the Corsican migration and origins ...
This category lists articles on Puerto Rican people of Corsican descent (ethnic ancestry or national origin), including naturalized immigrants and their descendants as well as Puerto Rican people born to binational parents.
[3] [4] [5] His research of the Corsican-Puerto Rican connection has provided a wealth of information about Puerto Rico's ties with Corsica. Among Negroni's works is " La Genealogía de Puerto Rico " (The Genealogy of Puerto Rico) which provides an indepth study of the Puerto Rican people.
The list is a historical list which contains the surnames of the first 403 Corsican families who immigrated to Puerto Rico in the 19th Century which was compiled by genealogist and historian Colonel (USAF Ret. ) Hector A. Negroni. dozens of other Corsican families immigrated to the island after the initial 403 families.
Large numbers of Corsicans left the island for the French mainland or foreign countries. During the 19th century, the favorite destinations of migrants were the French colonies and South America (for more details, see Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico and Corsican immigration to Venezuela).
Yauco was named after the Yauco River, which itself comes from the Taíno word coayuco, meaning "cassava plantation" (also where the word yucca comes from). [2] The city has numerous nicknames such as Pueblo del Café ("coffee town"), due to the high number of coffee plantations in the area, and Pueblo de los Corsos ("Town of Corsicans"), after the large number of Corsican immigrants who ...
The first wave of Canarian migration to Puerto Rico seems to be in 1695, followed by others in 1714, 1720, 1731, and 1797. The number of Canarians that immigrated to Puerto Rico in the first three centuries of Iberian rule is not known to any degree of precision.
Before aviation became a popular means of travel in Puerto Rico, most Puerto Ricans and foreigners in the Puerto Rican archipelago did their travel to cities on the Puerto Rican islands by train [1] (and sometimes by horse or carriages), except when boats were needed (such as travel to the island-cities of Culebra and Vieques) from around the 1870s to around 1926.