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Vieques ( / viˈeɪkəs / ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjekes] ), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island and municipality of Puerto Rico, a United States territory in the northeastern Caribbean.
Caja de Muertos ( lit. 'Chest of the Dead'; [1] [2] [3] also in English: Deadman's Chest or Coffin Island) is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce. The island and its surrounding waters are protected by the Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve, because of its native turtle traffic and ecological value of its dry forests and reefs. Hikers and ...
List of islands of Puerto Rico. Isla Palomino. Cayo Matías in Salinas. Cayo Aurora in Guanica. This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico . The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has over 143 islands, keys, islets, and atolls. Only the main island of Puerto Rico (3,363 sq mi [8,710 km 2 ]) and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km 2 ]), and Culebra ...
Mona ( Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, a strait between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles (11 ...
Puerto Rico. (2020) [1] Isla Culebra ( Spanish pronunciation: [kuˈleβɾa], Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. It is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of the Puerto Rican mainland, 12 miles (19 km) west of St. Thomas and 9 miles (14 km) north of Vieques.
Puerto Rico [i] ( Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR ), [15] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [b] [j] is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United States.
The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago located between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, east of Hispaniola, west of the Virgin Islands, north of Venezuela, and south of the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. As the easternmost and smallest of the Greater Antilles, the main island of Puerto Rico is about 178 kilometers long (110 statute ...
Desecheo (Spanish: Isla Desecheo) ( Spanish pronunciation: [deseˈtʃeo]) is a small uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico in the northeast of the Mona Passage; 13 mi (21 km) from Rincón on the west coast ( Punta Higüero) of the main island of Puerto Rico and 31 mi (50 km) northeast of Mona Island. It has a land area of 0.589 sq mi (377 acres; 153 ha; 1.53 km 2 ). Politically ...