Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico ranks 99th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Haiti, Malaysia, and Honduras. Memorable people born in present day Puerto Rico include Raul Julia, José Feliciano, and Joaquin Phoenix. Memorable people who died in Puerto Rico include John Hawkins, Pablo Casals, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. Puerto Rico has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels.

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million residents, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates. Read more on Wikipedia