Prota rico6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() įor 2009, the American Community Survey estimates give a total of 3,859,026 Puerto Ricans classified as "Native" Puerto Ricans. Within the United States, Puerto Ricans are present in all states of the Union, and the states with the largest populations of Puerto Ricans relative to the national population of Puerto Ricans in the United States at large are the states of New York, Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, with large populations also in Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Illinois, and Texas. The population of Puerto Ricans and descendants is estimated to be between 8 and 10 million worldwide, with most living on the islands of Puerto Rico and in the United States mainland. Recent studies in population genetics have concluded that Puerto Rican gene pool is on average predominantly European, with a significant Sub-Saharan African, North African Guanche, and Indigenous American substrate, the latter two originating in the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico's pre-Columbian Taíno inhabitants, respectively. ![]() Also present in today's Puerto Ricans are traces (about 10-15%) of the aboriginal Taino natives that inhabited the island at the time European colonizers arrived in 1493. Puerto Rico has also been influenced by African culture, with many Puerto Ricans partially descended from Africans, though Afro-Puerto Ricans of unmixed African descent are only a significant minority. Puerto Rico has also received immigration from other parts of Spain such as Catalonia as well as from other European countries such as France, Ireland, Italy and Germany. The culture held in common by most Puerto Ricans is referred to as a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Spain, and more specifically Andalusia and the Canary Islands. Toa Alta.Main article: Demographics of Puerto Rico ![]() Sugarcane planters, oxen and steam tractor in distance Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA) house Ox cart hauling bundles of tobacco leaves Moving day, boy and donkey with load in tobacco field Milk station, woman fill glasses on table for children, lined up Men carrying bundles of tobacco into barn Hospital door, crowd gathered around entrance to La Plata hospital Horses with banana bunches on Pulguillas road Good Friday procession seen from aboveĭrying coffee, pile of coffee on large concrete pad, two men with large wooden tray with handles Ox cart backed up to tobacco warehouseīoy on mule with baskets, coconut grove, near Luquillo BeachĬane harvest, 6 ox team pulling carts on fieldĬane mill, horse harnessed to winch, driver resting, the Piñones- Vaciatalega area, not far from San JuanĬayey. Four horses carrying bundles of tobaccoĪibonito. Ambulance by Don Emanuelli's houseĪibonito. Clair Amstutz that documented everyday life of Puerto Rico from 1944 to 1947.Īibonito. These amazing color photos from Tom Lehman were taken by Dr. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. The capital and most populous city of Puerto Rico is San Juan. Virgin Islands it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. Puerto Rico is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida. ![]() Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. ![]()
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