PUERTO RICO

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!PUERTO RICO!
!PUERTO RICO!

• By Cody and Hunter

By Cody and Hunter
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LOCATION

• Its exact location is 18 15 N and 66 30W.
• Its general location is in the Caribbean
  islands.
• Most of the major cities are located along the
  coast such as you can see on the mapa.
• San Juan is the capitol of this party island.

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Place

• The official name of this country is Puerto
  Rico, the size is 580km, and the population is
  3.580 million people live in Puerto Rico.
• Some of the customs Puerto Rican people have
  really unique there folk lore goes all the way
  back to when people first came to Puerto Rico.
  The main religion in Puerto Rico is Catholic,the
  main language spoken in Puerto Rico is Spanish,
  and some major ethnic groups are Hispanic And
  African American.
• This Country is covered in mountains but has some
  rain forests, the natural resources Puerto Ricans
  use are stone, fish, and copper. Puerto Rico has
  a lot of frogs and Palm trees.
• The climate is very muggy, and the weather
  patterns are rain, wind, and very hot
  temperatures.

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Relationship within Places

• The people of Puerto Rico make there living by
  working in Textiles, Electronics, and
  Pharmaceuticals.
• The people of Puerto Rico have adapted to there
  climate by studying the weather pattern so they
  know when hurricane season hits. Also they the
  dress in shorts and T-shirts because the day is
  usually hot and humid.
• The People use there resources like fish, copper,
  and nickel for potential on and off shore crude
  oil.
• The form of energy used by Puerto Rico is Oil.
• Economic issues have had a big impact on Puerto
  Rico and some of those problems have been the
  reduce of sugar cane and the tabacoo has
  disappeared and these things were a big part of
  this country.
• A Important person to Puerto Rico is Christopher
  Columbus he had found the island, he started to
  bring new things to this island and thats what
  started the western influence in Puerto Rico.

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Movement

• The majority of the people who live in Puerto
  Rico live on the coast because most of the
  country is covered in mountains.
• The way everything gets transported on the island
  is by either boat or on the island they are
  transported by car or truck.
• To communicate ideas to each other people usually
  will tell others or they show it in there own
  way, for example if someone wanted to bring up a
  fashion trend they were something unique.
• Traditions and customs have passed through by
  stories, recipes that someones great grandma
  had, something that has been handed down by
  family.

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Regions

• The form of government Puerto Rico has is a
  Republican government and it was formed in
  relation to the United States government.
• The political regions that this government has is
  like the U.S.A it has a judiciary, Executive, and
  Legislative.
• The unique characteristics is that it is just
  like the United States government it was formed
  to be like the U.S.
• The major tourist attractions in Puerto Rico are
  the casinos, the beautiful tropical forests, and
  the historic figures.

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Bibliography

• I got my information on google,com and when I
  went there I typed in history of Puerto Rico and
  this web site popped up History of Puerto Rico
  and the web site is Welcome.topuertorico.org/histo
  ry.shtml