Hola amigos: I found a bilingual site called Puerto Rico Encyclopedia: www.enciclopediadepuertorico.com.  The first Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia (PROE)  main focus is to serve the needs of students,  the Puerto Ricans and their descendants who live in the United States, and the general public interested in the Puerto Rican experience. The publication is available free of charge to all users. Enjoy, ES

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At  http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/ you will find essays like:

Puerto Rico has received hundreds of immigrants, principally return migrants and their descendents, as well as citizens of other countries, especially the Dominican Republic and Cuba. From the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th, two basic tendencies have characterized the immigrant population of Puerto Rico(see Table 1) [Table1]…

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Music has played a historically crucial role as a means of cultural expression in Puerto Rico. The musical activity that has evolved on the island over the course of five centuries reflects a great diversity of genres ranging from folkloric to classical music, as well as completely new forms…

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The 16th Century to the 18th Century During the years of conquest and colonization, the economy of Puerto Rico could best be defined as an agricultural subsistence economy. The food needed to support the population was obtained through a combination of Taino agricultural methods, the raising of domestic animals, and the cultivation of crops originally imported from Europe…

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Introduction The history of Puerto Rico can be divided into three periods. The first one covers the earliest civilizations that ruled the Island of Boriquén; the second two are framed in the context of the relationship with Spain and the United States…

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Introduction The pursuit of a means for expressing the criollo soul and way of being was fulfilled at last with the arrival of the printing press in 1806, which besides creating a boom in journalism marked the beginning of literary activity in Puerto Rico. Following the publication of the first Puerto Rican newspaper, the Gaceta de Puerto Rico (1806-1902), a few other newspapers with a more literary bent, such as the Diario Liberal y de Variedades de Puerto Rico (1821-1822), were circulated…

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According to demographic data from the 2000 census, the total number of Puerto Ricans living in the mainland United States reached 3. 4 million, compared to the population of Puerto Rico, which stood at 3…

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Introduction The popular culture of Puerto Rico is a fusion of customs that have resulted from the coexistence of the Taino, Spanish, and African cultures and more recently, the culture of the United States. Popular culture is comprised of a diversity of expressions and elements: folklore, Puerto Rican cooking, celebrations, pastimes, objects of daily use, and popular art and music…

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Until the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, two general types of societies existed in the European colonies in the Caribbean, in varying harmony and conflict. The first consisted of the boisterous and violent society of farmers, prosperous landowners, exasperated officials, aching slaves, traders and free men of color…

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The arrival of western civilization, as expressed at the time by the recently unified Spanish monarchy, constituted a radical transformation for the lives of millions of people who lived in the Americas. Tainos and Caribes were the peoples who inhabited the islands visited by the three ships led by the explorer Christopher Columbus in search of an alternate route to India to increase trade for the Spanish crown…

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