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2. Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones - Wikipedia

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   The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) is a Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Planning Board (Junta de Planificación) for use by both private and public entities to evaluate, register, revitalize, develop or protect the built historic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico in the context and for economic ...

3. La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico

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   La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean. [1] The world heritage site consists of several historic defensive structures built by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries to defend the ...

4. Currencies of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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   In Puerto Rico, the Sociedad Numismática de Puerto Rico (lit. "Numismatic Society of Puerto Rico") was founded in 1949. [45] The society is usually composed of 25 to 50 members and it focuses in collecting and distributing both coins and banknotes from Puerto Rico to interested collectors.

5. List of museums in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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   Converted into a residential building during the late 19th-century and at some point, residence of Manuel Alonso y Pacheco, Puerto Rico's notable romantic writer. Casa del Trovador: Caguas: Music: Former house of musician Luis Miranda, now a museum dedicated to the music history of Caguas and the trobador musical heritage of Puerto Rico. Casa Dra.

6. List of United States presidential visits to Puerto Rico

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   President Theodore Roosevelt was the first sitting president to visit Puerto Rico arriving on the USS Louisiana (BB 19) on 21 November 1906, after inspecting the Panama Canal. A bronze statue and plaque commemorating his visit is on public view at the Paseo de los Presidentes on the south side of the Capitol of Puerto Rico. [citation needed]

7. San Germán Historic District - Wikipedia

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   Spanish colonists established La Villa de San Germán de Auxerre, also known as Nueva Salamanca, in the early years of the 16th century. The town of San Germán grew out of the settlement formally established in 1573, and it is this original urban core, transformed by rapid growth from the 1830s to the 1940s, that comprises the San Germán Historic District.

8. Tourism in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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   According to Puerto Rican farmer Carlos Pacheo, land used for agricultural areas allowing new uses, including industry, can negatively affect the growth of local agriculture in Puerto Rico and thus impact food security, which is a growing problem for Puerto Rico as the island has been relying on expensive importation of food. [28]

9. Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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   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 ...