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In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Vieques was 6,642 (but this included 704 residents from a nearby island, Culebra). [ 13 ] In the 1920s and 1930s, the sugar industry , on which Vieques was dependent, went into decline due to falling prices and industrial unrest.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Vieques is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
The Spanish Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes Españolas), [1] [2] formerly called the Passage Islands (Spanish: Islas del Pasaje), commonly known as the Puerto Rican Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes Puertorriqueñas), consist of the islands of Vieques and Culebra, located between the main island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the northeastern Caribbean. [3]
Vieques has 15 beaches dotted around its 21-mile circumference, each with its own unique draw or requiring a little effort to reach (we’re talking bumpy car rides and woodland walks), but for ...
Geologically separated from the Greater Antilles island of Hispaniola by the Mona Passage and from the Lesser Antilles island arc by the Anegada Passage, the main island of Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgin Islands of Vieques and Culebra, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular ...
English: Municipal locator-map-Puerto-Rico-Vieques. Date: 24 October 2020: Source: Own work based on: Puerto Rico municipios locator map.svg by The Eloquent Peasant ...
Isabel II barrio-pueblo (referred to as Isabel Segunda in Spanish) is a barrio and the administrative center in the downtown area in the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,354. [3] [4] [5]
Only the main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km 2]), and Culebra (10 sq mi [26 km 2]) are inhabited. Mona Island (22 sq mi [57 km 2 ]) has personnel from the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) stationed year-around but no private citizens inhabit it ...