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13000284 [ 2 ] Castillo San Felipe del Morro ( English: Promontory Castle of Saint Philip ), most commonly known as El Morro(The Promontory), is a large fortress and citadel in the historic district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Commissioned by King Charles I of Spain in 1539, it was first built as a fortified tower in honor of King Philip II ...
Puerto Rico[ i] ( Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR ), [ 15] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [ b][ j] is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United States.
5,800 feet (1,768 m) Concrete. Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, nicknamed Rosy Roads, [ 2][ 3] is a former United States Navy base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The site operates today as José Aponte de la Torre Airport, a public use airport. Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Maryland, Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, 1997.
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]
Ernesto was located 165 miles east-southeast of Antigua, one of the major Leeward Islands, and 460 miles east-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to an 11 p.m. AST update from the ...
Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico began in the early 1500s shortly after the formation of the Spanish state in 1493 (continuing until 1898 as a colony of Spain) and continues to the present day. The most significant Spanish immigration wave occurred during the colonial period, continuing with smaller numbers arriving during the 20th century to ...
The storm is expected to become a hurricane Wednesday morning and "could become a major hurricane in a couple of days," the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time a d ...
In Puerto Rico, about half of all customers on the island were at one point without power Wednesday, according to LUMA Energy, the private company that operates the transmission and distribution ...