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***INTERESTING FACTS ***
 * PUERTO RICAN CULTURE IS A MIX OF 4 CULTURES: AFRICAN ( FROM THE SLAVES ), TANIO ( AMERICANDIANS ), SPANISH AND MORE RECENTLY, NORTH AMERICAN.
 * PUERTO RICO IS LOCATED IN THE NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN, EAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND WEST OF THE VIRGIN ISLAND.
 * THE ISLAND IS ALSO POPULARY KNOWN AS "LA ISLA DE ENCATO" WHICH IS TRANSLATED MEANS " THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT"


 * NATIONAL BIRD - STRIPE HEADED TANAGER
 * NATIONAL FLOWER - PR HIBISCUS
 * CAPITAL - SAN JUAN
 * LANGUAGE - SPANISH

***CLIMATE*** *HOLIDAYS*
 * PR DOES LIE IN THE HURRICAN BELT, AND THE OFFICIAL HURRICAN SEASON RUNS FROM JUNE 1 TO NOV. 30.
 * IT IS COOLER THAN MANY OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLANDS DUE TO THE NORTHEAST TRADE WINDS, HEAVY PRECIPITATION, AND ALTITUDE OF MOST OF THE ISLAND.
 * **January 6 **

|| Three Kings Day 

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">March 11 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Abolition Day <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">April 16 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">José De Diego <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">July 17 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Luis Muñoz Rivera <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">July 25 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Constitution Day <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">July 27 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">José Celso Barbosa <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">September 23 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Grito de Lares <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">November 19 **<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

|| <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Discovery Day <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

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THREE KINGS DAY!! This is a Commonwealth of Puerto Rico official holiday, as well as a religious holiday. It celebrates the Three Wise Men's visit to see the newborn Christ by exchanging gifts. Traditionally, children stack bundles of hay in boxes under their beds for each Wisemen's camel, to then find their boxes exchanged for gifts..(JAN 6) A Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (ELA) official holiday. José de Diego (1867–1918) was a much-loved poet and politician leader. In recent years the holiday has been celebrated on the third Monday of April. (APRIL 16)

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