
A little piece of history about the Island country with the oldest city in all of the Americas: Old San Juan was founded in 1521. Puerto Rico first visited by Columbus in 1493 and settle by Juan Ponce de Leon over a decade later.
History of Puerto Rico, USA, since 1898
Puerto Rico, USA since 1898, Puerto Rico Democracy Act-1
Puerto Rico in the 1940s – Music: Lamento Borincano, Marc Anthony
Contemporary
About the people:
With nearly 4 million, it is one of the most populated islands in the world. One-third of the population is in the San Juan metropolitan area. People are a mixture of Spanish, native, African, Italian, French, German, Lebanese, and later in the 1960s Cubans and now Dominicans.
http://www.topuertorico.org/people.shtml