The
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico", IPA [estaðo
libɾe asosjaðo ðe pweɾto riko]), also
Porto Rico (archaic) and more commonly Puerto
Rico, is a United States unincorporated territory
with Commonwealth status located in the northeastern
Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of
the Virgin Islands; approximately two-thousand
kilometers (2,000 km; 1,280 miles) off the coast of
Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States). The
archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of
Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a
number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which
are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes
refer to their island as Borikén, or the Spanish
variant Borinquen, a name for the island used by
indigenous Taíno people. The current term boricua
derives from the Taíno name for the island, and is
commonly used to identify oneself as Puerto Rican.

Puerto
Rico map
Even
though all people born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens,
the nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with
the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in
the island, the United States Congress, and the United
Nations. Those who support maintaining the status
quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that
upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a
voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature
of a compact", but according to a President's Task
Force report, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized
territory of the United States, subject to the plenary
powers of the U.S. Congress and with the "right to
establish a constitution for the internal administration
of government and on matters of purely local
concern".
LINKS
and REFERENCE
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CIA
- The World Factbook - Puerto Rico accessed on
November 13, 2006.
-
United
Nations special decolonization committee- Puerto
Rico.
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report
accessed on April 9, 2007
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Iñigo
Abbad y Lasierra. Historia Geográfica, Civil y
Natural de la Isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto
Rico.
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Vieques
Island - What lies beneath.
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Brief
Chronology of Puerto Rico.
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Presently,
Puerto Ricans are also known as Boricuas, or
people from Borinquen.
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Treaty
of Paris (1898)
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García,
Marvin. Dr.
Pedro Albizu Campos. National-Louis
University.
-
Latino/a
Education Network Service, retrieved 5 February
2007
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Anglelo
Falcón, "Atlas of Stateside Puerto
Ricans", Puerto Rico Federal Affairs
Administration, published 6 December 2004,
retrieved 5 February 2007
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Act
of July 3, 1950, Ch. 446, 64 Stat. 319.
-
Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in Spanish
(original).
-
Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in English
(translation).
-
Elevations
and Distances in the United States. U.S
Geological Survey
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Los
Lagos de Puerto Rico (Spanish)
-
Island
Directory.
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Puerto
Rico DP-1. Profile of General Demographic
Characteristics: 2000.
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Martínez
Cruzado, Juan C. (2002). The Use of Mitochondrial
DNA to Discover Pre-Columbian Migrations to the
Caribbean:Results for Puerto Rico and Expectations
for the Dominican Republic. KACIKE: The Journal of
Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
[On-line Journal], Special Issue, Lynne Guitar,
Ed. Available at: http://www.kacike.org/MartinezEnglish.pdf
[Date of access: 25 September, 2006]
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Fundación
Príncipe de Asturias
-
Rules
of the House of Representatives
-
LinktoPR.com
- Fundación de los Pueblos.
-
For
the complete statistics regarding these
plebiscites please refer to Elections
in Puerto Rico:Results.
-
[1]
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PPD
Party Resolution #2006-02
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PRLDEF.
-
U.S.
Census - Median Family Income.
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[2]
-
Rodríguez,
Magdalys. "No
hubo acuerdo y el gobierno amaneció cerrado",
El Nuevo Día. Retrieved on 2006-05-01. (Spanish)
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Miguel
Díaz Román. "Incierto
el impacto del nuevo tributo", El Nuevo Día,
2006-11-15
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BBC
Sports - Olympics 2004.

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