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The economy of Puerto Rico is classified as a high-income economy by the World Bank and as the most competitive economy in Latin America by the World Economic Forum. [14] [15] The main drivers of Puerto Rico's economy are manufacturing, which primarily includes pharmaceuticals, textiles, petrochemicals, and electronics; followed by the service industry, notably finance, insurance, real estate ...
Arturo Massol González, [42] professor at the University of Puerto Rico, [13] winner of the 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize, [44] [45] and director of Casa Pueblo, [46] a community-based environmental watchdog organization in Puerto Rico, estimated that construction of the project would require the alteration of 8.2 million cubic meters of land.
Florida is the second smallest municipality of Puerto Rico, with an area of 10 square miles. As the only municipality in Puerto Rico that has its urban area within the northern karst region (sometimes referred as the Northern Karst Hills), it is surrounded by low elevation, red clay and limestone haystack hills known in Caribbean Spanish as mogotes.
A newer municipality of Puerto Rico, Florida has one barrio called Florida Adentro and two subbarrios: Florida Zona Urbana and Pajonal, and it does not have a barrio-pueblo like most of the other municipalities of Puerto Rico. [9] [10] [11] Florida map. The following areas are neighborhoods in Florida: Parcelas Arroyo; Parcelas Selgas; Perol ...
Florida 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.
The Morris J. Berman oil spill occurred on January 7, 1994, when the Morris J. Berman, a single-hull 302-foot-long barge, with the capacity to carry more than 3 million gallons of oil, collided with a coral reef near San Juan, Puerto Rico, [2] causing the release of 750,000 gallons of heavy grade oil. [2]
Florida Adentro, Florida, Puerto Rico This page was last edited on 7 January 2019, at 11:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The following sectors are in Florida barrio: [17] Comunidad César “Coca” González, Sector Barrancón, Sector Gobeo, Sector Martineau, Sector Monte Santo, Sector Monte Santo Playa, Sector PRRA, Sector Tortuguero, Sector Villa Borinquen, Urbanización Brisas Las Marías, Urbanización Ciudad Dorada, Urbanización Estancias de Isla Nena ...