Panorama Cultural

Panorama cultural: Puerto Rico

General

Destination Puerto Rico: www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/car/pue.htm

InfoPuertoRico: www.infopuertorico.com/pr/e/home.asp

LANIC Puerto Rico: lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/other/pr

Latin World Puerto Rico: www.latinworld.com/caribe/puertorico/index.html

PuertoRico.Com: www.puertorico.com

San Juan, Puerto Rico: www.bolack.com/port/port.htm

Welcome to Puerto Rico: welcome.topuertorico.org

Arecibo

Arecibo Web: www.geocities.com/areciboweb

Heading for the Telescope: www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/exped_seti000223_part1.html

Hurricane Georges Aftermath: www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct98/AreciboAftermath.bpf.html

Taíno

The Taíno Culture of Puerto Rico: www.doitnow.com/~smd/taino.htm

The Taíno Inter-Tribal Council: www.hartford-hwp.com/Tekesta/index.html

Taíno Museum: www.amdatel.com/tainomuseum

Taíno Website: members.dandy.net/~orocobix/index.html

Vieques

Bioluminescent Bay: islavieques.com/sbiobay.html

World’s Brightest Glowing Bay: www.biobay.com

Yunque

Caribbean National Forest: www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/cnf/cnf.html

Puerto Rico Journey: The El Yunque Rain Forest: www.iit.edu/~PR/elyunque.html

Alonso Ramírez

Welcome to Puerto Rico, Literature: welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/litera.shtml

Newspapers

Newspapers Online Puerto Rico: www.newspapers.com/results.asp?country=PUERTO%20RICO

El Nuevo Día: www.endi.com

Culture

The International Council of Museums: www.icom.org/vlmp/latin-america.html#Puerto Rico

Actividad cultural

Use the Web links on this page or others to complete the following items about Puerto Rico.
1. Where is the Bahía Bioluminiscente and why is it unique?

2. What are some of the different kinds of studies that Arecibo Observatory is used for? What facilities have been created for tourists at the Observatory?

3. What are some of the flora and fauna found in the Yunque? Are any of these unique to the Yunque?



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