Puerto Rico

PUERTO RICO

Puerto Rico Tourism Company, Serrano, 1 - 2A, 28001 Madrid, Spain. Tel: 00800 7426 7426. Fax: 0034 91 577 5260. E-mail: puertoricoeuro@prtourism.com. Web: www.GoToPuertoRico.com

Land Area 3, 421 square miles
Population 3.5 million
State Capital San Juan
Largest City San Juan
Local Time Atlantic Time - 4 hrs behind the UK
Climate One of the world’s most unvarying climates with daily highs 70 - 85°F. The wettest and hottest month is August with average monthly rainfall of seven inches. The topography creates different regional climates: Ponce & the southern coast are warmer and drier than San Juan in the north. It is coldest in the central Cordillera mountain range by 10 - 20 degrees cooler and wettest in the north-east where the El Yunque rainforest is located.
Ntl Parks 9

Puerto Rico is an island of natural beauty that has to be explored! A US Commonwealth since 1952, it shares the mainland’s language, currency & immigration system. However, its great diversity of landscape, natural phenomena and the rich Spanish, African and Taino Indian heritage offers visitors a completely contrasting holiday experience.

The capital, San Juan, is the first port of call with great value shopping for traditional and designer goods. Day and night time entertainment abounds in the many local & sophisticated bars and restaurants with salsa dancing & the casino scene being popular pastimes. In contrast, the walled city of Old San Juan is a cultural haven with its blue cobbled streets, Spanish colonial architecture, museums, churches & fortresses. Hundreds of miles of white sandy beaches embrace the uplands of the Cordillera mountain range leading into the lush, tropical vegetation of El Yunque rainforest. The mountain climate offers perfect conditions for hiking and soft adventure sports. The River Camuy’s network of caves are an explorer’s paradise. The island also offers sailing, game fishing, diving, snorkelling, surfing, horseriding and 23 golf courses. Alternatively, go whale watching, visit one of Puerto Rico’s three bioluminscent bays or just relax and watch the sunset!

  Puerto Rico

STRANGE BUT TRUE ...
Puerto Ricans have US citizen status, can travel freely to mainland USA but there is no such thing as a Puerto Rican passport and they can’t vote in US presidential elections.

LOOK OUT FOR ...
Singer Ricky Martin, J-Lo (Jennifer Lopez), Bruce Forsyth and his wife, an ex Miss World and Juan (ChiChi) Rodriguez, Puerto Rican golfer.

IF YOU ONLY SEE ONE THING ...
On a moonless night view the glowing waters of one of Puerto Rico’s three bioluminscent bays: Las Cabezas de San Juan in Fajardo(night kayak tour), Mosquito Bay in Vieques (on an electric boat), La Parguera in Lajas (on a local fisherman’s boat).


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