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The potcake dog or American Village Dog is a mixed-breed dog type found on several Caribbean islands.Its name comes from a traditional local dish of seasoned rice and pigeon peas; overcooked rice that sticks to the bottom of the cooking pot (forming the 'pot cake') is commonly mixed with other leftovers and fed to the dogs. [1]
Dead Dog Beach (La Playa de los Perros Muertos, also known as Sato Beach and officially named Playa Lucia) is a beach within the municipality of Yabucoa in southeastern Puerto Rico. Its nickname derives from it being a dumping ground for stray animals, mainly dogs that the inhabitants of Yabucoa could no longer afford.
A sato is a mongrel (i.e. mixed breed) dog, often without a home, in Puerto Rico. [4] Sato is also how many organizations in Puerto Rico and in the continental U.S. refer to the Puerto Rican dogs when aiming to find them owners. [5] [6] [7] The Sato Project founded by Christina Beckles is named after them.
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Stray dog in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, street dogs (and cats) are known as satos. [105] In the late 1990s it was estimated there were 50,000 street dogs in the U.S. territory. [106] By 2018 there were around 300,000 stray dogs in Puerto Rico. [107] Programs to address the problem have been launched by the Humane Society of Puerto ...
Artistic representation of the extinct Puerto Rican shrew. The richness of mammals in Puerto Rico, like many other islands, is low relative to mainland regions. The present-day native terrestrial mammal fauna of Puerto Rico is composed of only 13 species, all of which are bats. 18 marine mammals, including manatees, dolphins and whales, occur in Puerto Rican waters. [13]
The Puerto Rican archipelago consists of the main island of Puerto Rico, two island municipalities, Vieques and Culebra, one minor uninhabited island, Mona and several smaller islands and cays. This list only includes animals with verifiable established populations in the archipelago of Puerto Rico.
Indigenous peoples are recorded later in Puerto Rico than on many other Caribbean islands. The Puerto Rican census of 1777 listed 1,756 indios , while the 1787 census listed 2,032. It is not clear, however, exactly which groups were counted as indios at the time and how accurate the census data was—some indios may have remained hidden or ...