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Rincón (Spanish pronunciation:) is a popular beach town and municipality of Puerto Rico founded in 1771 by Don Luis de Añasco, who previously founded Añasco in 1733. It is located in the Western Coastal Valley, west of Añasco and Aguada.
Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Health Reform) – locally referred to as La Reforma ('The Reform') – is a government-run program which provides medical and health care services to the indigent and impoverished, by means of contracting private health insurance companies, rather than employing government-owned hospitals and ...
Español: Dimensiones basadas en la forma más comúnmente utilizada y ampliamente aceptada de la bandera desde su adopción formal por el gobierno de Puerto Rico en 1952. La ley de Puerto Rico no proporciona dimensiones sobre el tamaño de la forma rectangular, las rayas horizontales y la estrella vertical de cinco puntas de la bandera.
Early 20th c. map published by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology showing the Cayniabon area under Chief Canobana. The region of what is now Canóvanas belonged to the Taíno region of Cayniabón, also the native name of the Grande de Loiza River, which stretched from the central eastern region of Puerto Rico to the northeast coast of the island. [2]
As of the 2010 census, Mayagüez is the most populated pueblo in Puerto Rico with a population of 26,903, while Las Marías has the lowest population with 262 inhabitants. The largest barrio-pueblo in Puerto Rico is Fajardo with a total area of 3.23 square miles, while Toa Alta is the smallest with an area of 0.03 square miles. [7]
Mayagüez (Spanish pronunciation: [maʝaˈɣwes], locally [maʝaˈweʔ]) is the ninth-largest [4] municipality in Puerto Rico.It was founded as Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Township of Our Lady of Candelaria), and is also known as La Sultana del Oeste (The Sultaness of the West), Ciudad de las Aguas Puras (City of Pure Waters), or Ciudad del Mangó (Mango City).
Demographically, municipalities in Puerto Rico are equivalent to counties in the United States, and Puerto Rican municipalities are registered as county subdivisions in the United States census. [2] Statistically, the municipality with the largest number of inhabitants is San Juan , with 342,259, while Culebra is the smallest, with around 1,792.
Ceiba (Spanish pronunciation:) is both a small town and a municipality in northeast Puerto Rico.It is named after the famous Ceiba tree. Ceiba is located in the north-east coast of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, south of Fajardo, north of Naguabo and southeast of Río Grande.