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Sixteen autosomal studies of peoples in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora (mostly Puerto Ricans) have shown that between 10% and 20% of their DNA is Indigenous. Some individuals have slightly higher scores, and others have lower scores or no indigenous DNA at all. [ 150 ]
Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), [12] [13] most commonly known as Boricuas, [a] [14] but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, [b] or Puertorros, [c] [15] are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
The culture of Puerto Rico is the result of a number of internal and indigenous ... to groups of 3,000 people. ... Puerto Rican poetry has made great ...
The following is a list solely of Puerto Ricans or people of Puerto Rican descent with non-Hispanic surnames and is not intended to reflect the ethnicity of the person listed. This list also includes people of Puerto Rican descent born in the United States and men and women who adopted Puerto Rico as their homeland. [note 1]
Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto Rican-Venezuelan activist, was an important voice for gay and transgender rights in the 1960s and 70s. 35. In 1989, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was the the first Latina elected to ...
Map of the departments of Puerto Rico during Spanish provincial times (1886).. The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1493, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taíno.
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
As of 2021, about 5.8 million people of Puerto Rican descent, ... Congress made Puerto Ricans U.S. citizens in 1917, about 19 years after taking control of the island. Later, when the island ...