Discovery of Puerto Rico

1493. The island was discovered by Columbus on his second journey. Natives used to call it borinquen, and the discoverer named it after San Juan Baptist in tribute to Don Juan the Prince of Asturias.
The island was formerly inhabited by tainos, an agricultural people quickly killed off as a consequence of hard working conditions and diseases they had never come down with before and that had been brought by the Spaniards.

Día: 
1493
Mes: 
11
Año: 
19

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La línea férrea de las Bermudas se inauguró en 1931, y fue la más costosa jamás construida. Fue clausurada en 1948 y vendida a Guyana, junto con su máquina, conocida como Old Rattle and Shake. La antigua línea es ahora una pista natural.