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Islands Of Puerto Rico
This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has over 143 islands, cay, keys, islets, and atolls. Only the Geography of Puerto Rico, main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques (), and Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra () are inhabited. Isla de Mona, Mona Island () has personnel from the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) stationed year-around but no private citizens inhabit it (other than overnight camping guests and nature enthusiasts). Caja de Muertos Island () is also a DNER Nature Reserve, while Desecheo Island () is a National Wildlife Refuge administrated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The other 137 islands, keys, islets and atolls are not inhabited. Some islands are privately-owned: Isla Palomino, which is rented on a long-term lease to El Conquistador Hotel, Isleta Marina, Isla de Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Palomino
Palominos Island (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Isla Palominos'') is a small island located off the coast of the Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrio of Cabezas, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Cabezas in the municipality of Fajardo to the northeast of the Geography of Puerto Rico, main island of Puerto Rico. It forms part of a small chain of cays, reefs, and islets protected by the La Cordillera Reef Nature Reserve. The island is home to ''El Conquistador Resort''. Geography Palominos is long and maximally wide, measures in area and reaches a height of . Coral reefs, seagrass beds, and rocky coast species are among the natural attractions found in Palominos. Another attraction is the neighboring island of Palominitos, which means tiny Palominos. Located about south of Palominos, Palominitos now almost sank due to erosion. Economy Palominos is the largest of three private islands near Puerto Rico, the other two being the neighboring ''Ramos'' island and ''Lobos'' cay. The island is owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla De Ratones (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico)
Isla de Ratones also known as Cayo Ratones or Isla Ratones (Spanish language, Spanish for ''mice island'') is a small island located near the Joyuda Lagoon in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The island is a popular spot for snorkeling and bathing. History The island was originally known as , Island, or Pineapple Island. In the past, the island was used to cultivate pineapple and Sugarcane, sugar cane crops. Later on for years the island was abandoned and was practically a dumpster, because of which the residents of Joyuda, Puerto Rico, Joyuda began referring to it as , () because of the amount of rodents that inhabited the island. During half of the twentieth century, the then owner of the Cerveceria India, Don Alfonso Valdés Cobián was one of the people in charge of the Island. During this time he began cleaning up the small isle. In 1988, the island was sold to MTV, who organized a fantasy island sweepstakes promoted by Cyndi Lauper. After several protests, nothing more was hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Cardona
Isla Cardona, also known as Sor Isolina Ferré Island, is a small, uninhabited island located 1.30 nautical miles south of the mainland Puerto Rican shore across from Barrio Playa, on the west side of the entrance to the harbor of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The small island is considered part of barrio Playa. It is home to the 1889 Cardona Island Light, which is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Together with Caja de Muertos, Gatas, Morrillito, Ratones, Isla del Frio, and Isla de Jueyes, Cardona is one of seven islands ascribed to the municipality of Ponce. The island gained notoriety in 2010 when the Puerto Rican Bird Society made it a target for the eradication of the black rat. Location Located on the Bahía de Ponce, the island has an area of . The island, sometimes erroneously called a key (or cay), is located at latitude 17°57"24.3' and longitude -66°38'5.9' (latitude 17.95672N, longitude: -66.634982W). The short distance from the mainland shore m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla De Cabras
Isla de Cabras ( Spanish for "goat island") is a small islet in the middle of the mouth of San Juan Bay in northeastern Puerto Rico. Part of the Palo Seco barrio in the Toa Baja municipality, the islet is located at the entrance to San Juan Bay, across from the Old San Juan historic quarter in San Juan Islet in San Juan, the capital municipality of the archipelago and island. Home to Isla de Cabras National Park, a recreational area opened in 1957, it contains El Cañuelo fort, which alongside El Morro fortress on San Juan Islet, protected San Juan Bay, the harbor of Old San Juan, from invasion by competing world powers during the Age of Sail. The ruins of a 19th-century leprosy colony and a World War II fort are located in the islet, which also houses a police firing range since 1950. The Bacardi’s Cathedral of Rum in the adjacent Cataño municipality is directly south of the islet. Surrounded by reefs and shoals, Isla de Cabras originally consisted of the rocky hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
Isla Verde ( Spanish for ''green island'') is an urbanized, beachfront resort and residential district with various upscale hotels and condominiums in the municipality of Carolina, where the main airport of Puerto Rico, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, is located. Named after a small cay and reef near the shoreline, Isla Verde is about east of the Hato Rey business center, Condado resort area, and Old San Juan historic quarter in the adjacent capital municipality of San Juan, between the Los Corozos and San José Lagoon to the west and the La Torrecilla Lagoon to the east, which lies next to the state forest, beaches, and street food kiosks of the ''Piñones'' ("pine nuts") Afro-Puerto Rican community in the municipality of Loíza. Geolocation Isla Verde is named after a small cay surrounded by a coral reef measuring 2,518 m2 (0.6 acres) about 400 meters north of the shoreline at ''Punta del Medio'' (''middle point'') in the barrio of Cangrejo Arriba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrillito
Morrillito is a small uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The island is protected by the ''Reserva Natural Caja de Muertos'' natural reserve because of its native turtle traffic. Together with Caja de Muertos, Gatas, Ratones, Cardona, Isla del Frio, and Isla de Jueyes, Morrillito is one of seven islands ascribed to the municipality of Ponce. Location The island, sometimes erroneously termed a key (or, cay), is located south of the Puerto Rican mainland and is part of Barrio Playa ward of the Ponce, Puerto Rico, municipality. It is located off the southwest point of Caja de Muertos island and has an area of just . The island is connected to Caja de Muertos by a bank of shallow waters about deep. It is located at latitude 17.88417 and longitude -66.53361. Its length is northeast and southwest. Geography and climate The island is a small 31-foot flat-topped island located 200 yards off the southwestern tip of Caja de Muertos and, when viewed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monito Island
Monito Island ( English: ''Little Mona'', ) is an uninhabited island about northwest of the much larger Mona Island. ''Monito'' is the masculine diminutive form of ''Mona'' in Spanish, which also translates to ''little monkey'' in Spanish. It is one of three islands in the Mona Passage, and part of the Isla de Mona e Islote Monito ''barrio'', a subdivision of the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. It is from the Puerto Rican mainland, and from the island of Hispaniola (the coast of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...). Description The island is uninhabited. The high altitude of the island's shoreline makes it inaccessible by sea. ''Monito'' has an area of or , its highest point is , and is barren. The U.S. Coast Guard has resc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Mata La Gata
Isla Mata la Gata is a mangrove island and tourist attraction, located off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico. Closest access from the island is by boat from the coastal village of La Parguera, in Lajas. Available facilities include dock, picnic tables, open air shelters, changing cabanas and commode A commode is any of many pieces of furniture. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' has multiple meanings of "commode". The first relevant definition reads: "A piece of furniture with drawers and shelves; in the bedroom, a sort of elaborate chest ...s. Activities include sunbathing, swimming, snorkelling, picnicking, fishing. References Islands of Puerto Rico Tourist attractions in Puerto Rico {{LajasPR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Guachinanga
Isla Guachinanga is a small island located in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The island, which has a number of trees and ecological areas, was reportedly littered with trash as of 2013. Isla Guachinanga is near Barrio Obrero and Residencial Las Casas Residencial Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, more commonly known as Residencial Las Casas, Caserio Las Casas or Las Casas, is a public housing complex located in San Juan, Puerto Rico consisting of 417 housing units. It is under the management of the .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Isla Guachinanga Islands of Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culebrita
Culebrita Island (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Isla Culebrita,'' meaning "little snake island") is a small, uninhabited island off the eastern coast of the island-Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra in the Spanish Virgin Islands, administratively part of the Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago of Puerto Rico and geographically part of the Virgin Islands, archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Together with ''Cayo Botella'' off the northwestern point, and ''Pelá'' and ''Pelaita'' to the west, Culebrita belongs to the Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrio Fraile, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Fraile of the main island of Culebra. It is a nature reserve and is part of the Culebra National Wildlife Refuge. The island is home to Culebrita Lighthouse, one of the oldest lighthouses in the Caribbean. Culebrita is only accessible by private boat from the main island of Culebra. Geography Culebrita is a coral island approximately 1 mile in length and a tourist spot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Cabras Light
Isla Cabras Light, also known as Faro de Isla Cabras, was a lighthouse located on a rocky but flat islet with the same name, which sit just off the coast near Ceiba, Puerto Rico, toward the Vieques Passage. Planning and construction Fishing boats were not the only ones to cross the Vieques Passage, but also ocean-going ships. In fact, the expanse of water between Isla Cabras and Vieques had become an important passway during the long duration of the Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico. So, when in 1869 Madrid approved the lighthouse's construction on Isla Cabras, few questioned its wisdom. The initiative was not an isolated event, but part of an island-wide modernization project for "maritime illumination" (es: "Plan de Alumbrado Maritimo en la Isla de Puerto Rico"). Puerto Rico's coasts were coming into the light with the establishment of fourteen lighthouses of which the Isla Cabras Light was the twelfth in line. At its roots, the project responded to unprecedented politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatas (Ponce)
Gatas, or more commonly Isla de Gatas, is a small island in barrio Playa in the municipality of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico. A tied island since the 1950s connected to the Puerto Rico mainland via a tombolo, Isla de Gatas is home to Club Náutico de Ponce, a private sports complex. It is located south of La Guancha and the Port of Ponce. Together with Caja de Muertos, Morrillito, Ratones, Cardona, Isla del Frio, and Isla de Jueyes, Gatas is one of seven islands in the municipality of Ponce. Location and geography While geographically it is considered an island on its own right, Gatas is actually physically attached to the Puerto Rico mainland, thanks to the construction of a dike in the 1950s. In this sense, it is now a cape more than an island in the strictest sense. The dike grew the original one-acre island to the current . Gatas is located at latitude 17°57'49"N and longitude -66°37'05" (Latitude. 17.96944°, Longitude. -66.6175°) The island, located 0.12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
