About Puerto Rico Index

Airports

Aguadilla -
San Juan - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport

Beaches

== Scuba Diving ==
Guánica, The Wall

Surfing

Swiming

Fishing

Culebra

= Dorado =

Fajardo

= Luquillo =

San Juan

= Vieques =

Bioluminiscent or Phosphorescent bays

La Parguera, Lajas
Las Cabezas de San Juan, Fajardo
Vieques

Canyons

San Cristobal, Barranquitas

Caves

Camuy

Churches

The Porta Coeli cathedral ("Gateway to Heaven") was built in 1606 and is one of the oldest church structures in the western hemisphere. Located in San Germán, it was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and now serves as a museum of religious paintings and wooden carvings dating back from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Falls

Forests

El Yunque National Forest, commonly known just as El Yunque, is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System. The forest is located on the slopes of the Sierra de Luquillo Mountains in Puerto Rico, and encompasses 28,000 acres (113 km²) of land, making it the largest block of public land on the island of Puerto Rico.

Forts

The Fort San Felipe del Morro — or El Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Spanish— is a sixteenth-century citadel which lies on the northwestern-most point of the islet of San Juan. Construction at El Morro started in 1539 and a tiny proto-fortress was "completed" in 1589, comprised of perhaps 10% of the structure people see today. Many complex additional new structures were added to El Morro over the next 400 years. In 1983, the fort was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations and is part of San Juan National Historic Site.

The Fort San Cristóbal - or El Castillo de San Cristóbal in Spanish - is the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. When it was finished in 1783 it covered about 27 acres of land, basically wrapping the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal's double gates. After close to one hundred years of relative peace in the area, part of the fortification (about a third) was demolished in 1897 to help ease the flow of traffic in and out of the walled city. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site.

The Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (Fort Saint John of the Cross), better known as El Cañuelo, is located on Isla de Cabras. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site. This fort was originally built in wood in 1610. The fort played an important role during a Dutch attack to the island. At that time it was burnt to ashes. However, the Spaniards rebuilt it in the 1670s.

The Fortín de San Gerónimo del Boquerón is a small fort located in the entrance to what is known today as Condado, Puerto Rico lagoon in San Juan. It was built during the 17th century to replace a smaller battery (called El Boquerón) that stood at the easternmost end of the San Juan islet. The original Boquerón battery defended San Juan from attacks by Sir Francis Drake in 1595 and Sir George Clifford "Earl of Cumberland" in 1598 who destroyed it after his attack. The San Gerónimo became part of San Juan's First Line of Defense, along with the San Antonio Fort/Bridge and Escambrón Fort, being the Fourth and final Line of Defense the majestic San Cristóbal Castle, guardian to the city entrance.

Haciendas / Plantations

Hacienda Buena Vista, Ponce

Hotels

Light Houses

Las Cabezas de San Juan, Fajardo

Mountains

Las Tetas De Cayey, also known as "Cerro Las Tetas" and "Cerro del Torito", are two mountain peaks in Salinas nicknamed so for their similarity to a woman's breasts (the word "tetas" is colloquial for "breasts" in Spanish). They are located near the Monumento al Jíbaro Puertorriqueño statue which is found along Highway PR-52 which cuts across the island from north to south. The town of Salinas took the town of Cayey to court over the location of "Las Tetas" and won, so "Las Tetas de Cayey" is now located within the municipality of Salinas.

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Posadas

Restaurants

Science

The Arecibo Observatory is a very sensitive radio telescope located approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest from the town of Arecibo. It is operated by Cornell University under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The observatory's 305 m radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope (cf. multiple aperture telescope) ever constructed. It carries out three major areas of research: radio astronomy, aeronomy and radar astronomy observations of solar system objects. The telescope is visually distinctive and has been used in the filming of two notable motion pictures: as the villain's antenna in the James Bond movie GoldenEye and as itself in the film Contact. The telescope received additional international recognition in 1999 when it began to collect data for the SETI@home project.

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Shopping Malls

Hato Rey

Plaza Las Américas - The largest shopping centre in the Caribbean

Sports

Baseball

The Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico or LBPPR) is the main professional baseball league in Puerto Rico. Currently consisting of six teams, the league's champion participates in the Caribbean World Series. As of August 8, 2007 their 2007-2008 season has been cancelled due to shrinking attendance & profits over the last 10 years plus with both Arecibo & Manati sitting out the season leaving the future of the league in question.

Lobos de Arecibo (Arecibo Wolves)

Criollos de Caguas (Caguas Creoles)

*Gigantes de Carolina (Carolina Giants)