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Vieques was formally annexed to Puerto Rico in 1854. In 1816, Vieques was briefly visited by Simón Bolívar when his ship ran aground there while fleeing defeat in Venezuela. [10] During the second part of the 19th century, thousands of slaves of African descent were brought to Vieques to work the sugarcane plantations.
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]
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 16 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico covers the eastern region of Puerto Rico, from Carolina in the northeast to Arroyo in the southeast. It also includes the islands of Culebra and Vieques.
According to a 2006 newspaper article there is a study by the Puerto Rico Health Department which linked abnormally high levels of asthma in children to mercury contamination. [24] In 2004, the infant mortality rate in Vieques was 55% higher than the other 77 municipalities in Puerto Rico—a rate of almost 20 per 1000 live births as opposed to ...
Isabel II barrio-pueblo is the location of several historic sites listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, including: Fuerte de Vieques (El Fortín Conde de Mirasol) Casa Alcaldia de Vieques; Casa Augusto Delerme; Casa Delerme-Anduze No. 2; Casa de Jaime Puig Lemoine; Delerme-Anduze House; Las Tumbas de J. J. Maria le Guillou
Map of Puerto Rico from 1952. In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded and subsequently became a possession of the U.S. The first years of the 20th century were marked by the struggle to obtain greater democratic rights from the U.S. [citation needed]
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.