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The Manila galleon (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila), originally known as La Nao de China, and Galeón de Acapulco, refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Spanish Crown's Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with its Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean.
UTC−4 ( AST) ZIP Codes. 00721, 00745. Area code. 787/939. Major routes. Río Grande ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈɣɾande]) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the eastern edge of the Northern Coastal Valley, north of Las Piedras, Naguabo and Ceiba; east of Loíza and Canóvanas and west of Luquillo.
The Cordillera Central ( English: Central Mountain Range), is the main mountain range in Puerto Rico. The range crosses the island from west to east and divides it into its northern and southern coastal plains. The Cordillera Central runs eastward from the municipality of Maricao in the west to Aibonito in the central eastern region, and on to ...
The Río Grande de Arecibo ( Arecibo River) is a river of Puerto Rico. The headwaters lie in the mountains to the south of Adjuntas. From there it flows north until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean near Arecibo. [1] The tributaries lie along the side of the Cerro de Punta and the Utuado pluton. It flows through the northern, passing along a gorge ...
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [2] [3] [9] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105,000 square kilometers (40,541 ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Puerto Rico : The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States of America located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. [1] The commonwealth comprises an archipelago ...
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974) 18°22′45″N 65°49′28″W / 18.3791160°N 65.8243303°W / 18.3791160; -65.8243303 This article related to a river in Puerto Rico is a stub .
The Caribbean bioregion, as described by the World Wildlife Fund, includes the Greater Antilles ( Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica ), the Lesser Antilles, the Lucayan archipelago ( Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands ), Southern Florida in the United States and Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. The Lucayan archipelago lies north of the ...