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Bookmark & shareA bustling island whose shiny consumerism rubs up against an unspoiled interior.
Puerto Rico is where four centuries of Spanish Caribbean culture comes face to face with the American convenience store. This leads to some strange juxtapositions - parking lots and plazas, freeways and fountains, skyscrapers and shanties - but it's all apiece with the Caribbean's hybrid history.
Travellers who venture into the island's mountainous interior or explore its undeveloped coasts come across stately hill towns where the locals in the plaza seem to have been feeding the same pigeons for decades, and reefs where divers can see 30 species of fish in as many seconds.
Fast Facts
Country Full Name
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Population
3,915,798
Currency
Name: US Dollar
Code: USD
Symbol: US$
Electrical Plugs
120V 60Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Spanish; Castilian, English
Time Zones
GMT/UTC -4
Country Dialing Code
+787
Weights & Measures
Metric
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