Digital Librarian: Puerto Rico

Agriculture

Tropical Agriculture Research Station - Mayaguez. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.

Architecture & Design

Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP)

Arts

African American Visual Artists Database
El Status - "Independent platform for contemporary Puerto Rican art".
Emilio Rosado Méndez (1922-1996)
Francisco Oller
Rafael Tufiño Figueroa
Artesanía de La Rioja / Cerámica Hermanos Fajardo

Beaches

Boqueron Beach
Luquillo Beach

Business

Caribbean Business Press
Tea & Coffee Trade Journal

Coffee

Café Bello - Adjuntas (787-829-2610)
Cafe Hacienda San Pedro - Route 144, Jayuya.
Café Lareño
Café Pomarrosa - The Golden Roseapple Farm, Carr. 511 Esq. Carr. 143, Barrio Anón, Sector Hogares Seguros Ponce 00715 (787-460-8934). Coffee tours and lodgings. Highly recommended by this author (Margaret Anderson) and TripAdvisor.
La Casona Hacienda Palma Escrita - Las Marias
Coffee Haciendas in Puerto Rico -
Coffee Haciendas Tours
Coffee Specialty of Puerto Rico
Gustos Coffee Co. - San Juan.
Hacienda Ana - Jayuya (787-378-7551)
Hacienda Buena Vista - Ponce. See National Park Service.
Hacienda Central Pellejas -Guyanabo near Adjuntas. Owned by Luis Ramos.
Hacienda El Jibarito - San Sabastian (787-280-4040)
Hacienda Patricia - Ponce
Hacienda Safra - Adjuntas. (787-829-5826)
Hacienda San Pedro - Jayuya
Historic coffee haciendas expected to bring a boost to Puerto Rico's tourism business - By Gay Nagle Myers, Travel Weekly, August 26, 2008. The selected and certified plantations are Café Bello and Sagra in Adjuntas; Anna Coffee Estate [filed for Chapter 11 in 2012], Hacienda Gripiñas and Hacienda San Pedro in Jayuya; Café Laredo in Lares; Palma Escrita/La Casona in Las Marias, Hacienda Buena Vista and Hacienda Patricia in Ponce; and Hacienda El Jibarito in San Sebastian.
Monte Alto - 787-829-5353
Museo Del Cafe - 42 Calle Palmer Cabalines, Ciales. (787-871-3439)
Puerto Rico Coffee Buyers & Growers Association
The Renaissance of Puerto Rican specialty coffee: with a renewed commitment to exporting Puerto Rican specialty coffee, Puerto Rican coffee growers look to recapture the country's former glory as a leading coffee exporter - By Nanette Eldridge, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, June 1, 2012, pp. 14-19.
Puerto Rico Coffee Roasters
Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
Volunteers pick coffee, help needy kids - Caribbean Business Press, October 23, 2012.
Yauco Selecto AA - "Puerto Rican coffee from the Yauco region represented a standard of excellence in production that many other countries sought to imitate by the 1890s. Grown on the Southwestern Mountains of the island, this "Island" coffee is known for its mild flavor. Price is determined by the cost of production and the availability." (Forbes Magazine, July 2006.)

Culebra

Beaches
Flamenco
Zoni
Brava
Playa Larga
Tortolas
Resaca
Carlos Rosario
Beaches
Cactus Comeback in the Caribbean - By by Leopoldo Miranda-Castro and Silmarie Padron, Endangered Species Bulletin, August 2005, Vol. XXX No. 1, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, pp. 14-15.
Club Seabourne - Boutique hotel
Colmado Genesis
Culebra Community Library - Playa Sardina. Open 10-2 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 787-533-0725. See YouTube video: History of Culebra Community Library
Culebra Beach Villas - Flamenco Beach
Culebra Divers
Culebra National Wildlife Refuge - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. With map
Culebra Real Estate Sales
Defendiing a Sanctuary With Paint and Song - By Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, August 13, 2012. "Culebra's near-pristine nature lends inspiration to local artists like Jorge Acevedo, whose creations - on paper, wood, canvas, steel or even in song - depict mangroves, pelicans, turtles and crabs in bold reds, yellows and azure blues."
Einstein on the Beach: The Ph.D.'s of Culebra - By Finn-Olaf Jones, New York Times, November 4, 2005.
Explorer's Guide San Juan, Vieques & Culebra: A Great Destination - by Zain Deane
Google Map of Culebra - or search for 18.3169/-65.290
Isla Culebra
Juanita Bananas - Culebra
The Lighthouse - Guesthouse
Lonely Planet: Culebra
Mamacita's Guest House and Restaurant
MapMart
Moon Travel Guide: Culebra
A Tropical Getaway in Puerto Rico That's Also a Bargain - by Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, March 28, 2008
Culebra Villa Rental
Blue Horizon Realty
Culebra Island Realty
Culebra Vacation Planners
VRBO: Culebra
Caribbean Villa Complex - VRBO
Casa Nueva
Casa del Mar
Casa Coqui
Casa Zoni
Villa Pelicano
U.S. Congress. House Committee on Armed Services. Hearings. 1969-1970 - From the HathiTrust Digital Library. Full text, starting on page of 9305 and ending on page 9441, of the Subcommittee on Real Estate Consideration of and Hearings on Acquisition Report No. 102 and Disposal Report No. 300 [H.A.S. C. No. 91-62]. Charles E. Bennett: "We are here today for the purpose of looking into the Navy's request for authorization to lease nonhabitation easements on the island of Culcbra and, on the other hand, to release certain other Navy-owned land on that island to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico." Page 9442 lists Principal witnesses including Culebra resident Anastasio Soto (p. 9333) Preisdent of the Committee for Rescue of Culebra (p.9375), Ramon Feliciano Encarnacion (p. 9310), Mayor of Culebra, and Richard Copaken, attorney at law at Covington & Burling. Copaken is the author of Target Culebra: how 743 islanders took on the entire U.S. Navy and won: an insider's account (2009).

Education

Universidad de Puerto Rico - San Juan
Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon
Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras (UPR-RP)

Environment and Sustainability

Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de Puerto Rico (DRNA) - Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER)
Hacienda Verde - Utuado (787.602.7040).
Puerto Rican Karst - "Puerto Rican karst covers more than one third of the island's territory..."
Sierra Club: Puerto Rico Chapter

Filmed in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Film
The Rum Diary - Collected reviews in Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE).
24 Hours

Flora & Fauna

Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata) - See Como Identificar a la Cotorra Puertorriqueña a U.S. Forest Service pdf document (in Spanish).
Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña, Inc. (SOPI) - Has a Catálogo de Aves de Puerto Rico and Aves Endémicas de Puerto Rico with photographs.

Food and Restaurants

Café del Angel - 1106 Avenue Ashford, San Juan (787-643-7594)
Casa Lola - 1006 Ashford Avenue, Condado, San Juan (787-998-2918)
Coquito - " Eggnog-like beverage traditionally served in Puerto Rico. It is made with rum, egg yolk, coconut milk, coconut cream, sweet condensed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The drink is commonly associated with the Christmas holidays." (Wikipedia)
El Boricua
Guanabana - Soursop,, the fruit of Annona muricata.
Horchata - "Name of several kinds of traditional beverages, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, or tigernuts (chufas)...In Puerto Rico, horchata is made with sesame seeds ground with rice, vanilla and cinnamon with either evaporated milk, milk or water. Some recipes call for coconut milk, allspice and rum. " (Wikipedia)
Juanita Bananas - Culebra
Limber
Mamacita's Guest House and Restaurant - Culebra
Marmalade Restaurant & Wine Bar - (787-724-3969)
Metropol Restaurant & Bar - Anexo Club Gallistico, Ave. Isla Verde (787-791-5585). "Lunch Specials starting at $6.95 Mon-Fri 11:00-2:00pm."(785-791-5585)
Nuyorican Café - 312 Calle San Francisco, Old San Juan
The Parrot Club
Tostones - Fried plantains

Gardens, Nurseries, Preserves

Govardhan Gardens - Eco-organic fruit nursery near Mayaguez. See Roberto's account of his visit - Govardhan Gardens, Tropical Fruit and Bamboo

Government

Departamento de Estado - Department of State, Calle San José, Esq. San Francisco, San Juan (787-722-2121)
In Puerto Rico, a Governor Pushes Big Change - By Nicholas Casey, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2012.
Puerto Rico.gov - Official portal of the government of Puerto Rico.

History

British History Online
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 5: 1661-1668 - Edited by W. Noel Sainsbury, 1880. Covers the whole period 1661-1668. America and West Indies - January 1661 to December 1668.
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 5-1661-1668 - August 1661
English Short Title Catalog 1473-1800 - "The English Short-Title Catalog (ESTC) is a vast database designed to include a bibliographic record, with holdings, of every surviving copy of letterpress produced in Great Britain or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800. In order to increase access to these items, we include references to microfilm, digital, and other facsimile versions. All of our records are fully searchable online. The ESTC is the joint effort of the British Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the ESTC/NA, and our many contributing libraries throughout the world." Also accessible via University of California.
HathiTrust Digital Library:
Elihu Root collection of United States documents Ser. B, Porto Rico v. 35.
Puerto Rico; a guide to the island of Boriquén - Compiled and written by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration in co-operation with the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration, 1940.
Puerto Rico and its resources (1899) - Frederick A. Ober.

Images

Flickr
Oquendo's Puerto Rico Collection - Adjuntas, Flora de Adjuntas,
Manuel Diaz Photography
Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata)
Panoramia: Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: A Paradise of Locations - Thousands of photographs depicting potential locations for film production.

Law

Puerto Rico Journalists' Association v. Mueller - American Civil Liberties Union.
United States Bankruptcy Court District of Puerto Rico

Libraries

Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries
CONUCO: Indice de Puerto Rico
Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña

Lodging

Blue Boy Inn - Rincon
Casa Flamboyant - Naguabo
Casa Grande Mountain Retreat - Utuado
Casa Libre Puerto Rico
Casa Picaflores - Naguabo
El Conquistador Resort
El Convento - Old San Juan (787-723-9020)
The English Rose - Rincon
The Gallery Inn - Old San Juan
Hacienda Casa Taina - Jayuya. (787-828-2270; 787-828-2271; 787-828-2272)
Hacienda El Jibarito - San Sebastiàn (787-896-5016, 787-280-4040, 787-896-5010)
Hacienda Pomarrosa - The Golden Roseapple Farm, Carr. 511 Esq. Carr. 143, Barrio Anón, Sector Hogares Seguros Ponce 00715 (787-460-8934). Beautiful accommodations and you can take a coffee tour. A hidden treasure. Highly recommended by this author (Margaret Anderson) and TripAdvisor.
Hix Island House - Vieques.
Horned Dorset - Rincon
Hosteria del Mar - 1 Tapia Street Ocean Park San Juan (787-727-3302)
Jájome Terrace - Carretera 15 K18.6 Cayey, 00736 (787 469 3939)
Lemontree Oceanfront Cottages - Rincon
The Lighthouse - Isla Culebra
Mary Lee's by the Sea - Guanica
Tourism Association of Rincon
Tres Sirenas Beachfront Inn - Rincon
Villa Harencia Hotel - San Juan
Villa Montana Beach Resort
Water Beach Club Hotel - Isla Verde, San Juan

Maps

Metrodata - "Dedicated exclusively to developing & updating maps and geographical data for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean."
Welcome to Puerto Rico

Museums

AACUPR
Asociación de Museos de Puerto Rico (AMPR) - Has a Directorio de Museos Afiliados
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín - San Juan. Puerto Rico historia educación democracia liderato partido popular doña inés casa museo parque
Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC) - San Juan
Museo de Arte de Ponce

Music

Gilberto Santa Rosa "Perdoname" - Salsa singer
Rafael Hernandez "El Cumbanchero"
Nuyorican Café - 312 Calle San Francisco, Old San Juan. The New York Times calls it the "hottest spot for live jazz and salsa."

News & Opinion

Puerto Rican Newspapers
Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Caribbean Herald
Caribbean Journal
Caribbean News Agency
Claridad, El Periódico de la Nación Puertorriqueña
Grenada Broadcast
Jamaica Observer
El Nuevo Dia - San Juan
Swizzle Radio
Trinidad Express
Trinidad Guardian

Places to Go

Bahia Fosforescente - La Parguera
Bosque Estatal de Cambalache
Las Cabezas de San Juan - Fajardo. See Las Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve (El Faro) by Peter L. Weaveer, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, [1999]. From the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge
Castillo San Felipe del Morro - 501 Calle Norzagaray, Old San Juan (787-729-6777)
Compañia de Parques Nacionales
Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge
Doña Juana Falls
Guajataca Forest
Guanica State Forest
Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge
Mar Chiquita - Manati
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico - 299 Ave. Josá de Diego, Santurce, 787-977-6277.
Parque de las Cavernas del Río Camuy
Piñones Forest
Reserva Natural Laguna Tortuguero
Rio Abajo Forest
Roberto's Puerto Rico - "We explore places most folks never see... What it's like to live on the Isle of Enchantment."
San Cristobal Canyon
Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
Toro Negro Forest Reserve

Rum

Travelers may return to the U.S. with five bottles of alcohol per person.

Bacardi Anejo Rum
Bacardi 8 Años Reserva Superior aged rum from Puerto Rico by Robert Burr, The Examiner, July 6, 2010.
Cana Rum Bar and Restaurant - Owned by Federico Hernandez and located in the Hotel El Convento, 100 Cristo, Old San Juan (787-723-9200)
Destilería Serrallés - Ponce. Makes the DonQ line of rums ("Q" stands for Quixote). Look for Gran Añej "aged between 3 and 12 years."
Edmundo B. Fernàndez, Inc - Haciendo Santa Ana in Bayamon. (787-785-3490) Manufacturer of Ron del Barrilito. See:
Yo ho ho: Bottles of rum (and Johnny Depp) in Puerto Rico by Kitty Bean Yancey, USA Today, October 6, 2011
Bayamon and Barrilito: Sultry Escape From Snow and Wine by Adam Japko. "The Three Star rum sells in stores in Puerto Rico for about $20 and the Two Star can be bought for around $13. If you visit Ron del Barrilito, you can buy a 3-pack of the Three Star for $36!" See Hacienda Santa Ana
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Video Tour
Rum Punch - "One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak."
Mellow Old Rums, Worthy of a Snifter - By Frank Prial, New York Times, July 9, 1997. "Light rums are not the ones connoisseurs prize. They prefer aged rums, made in old-fashioned pot stills and matured for years in oak barrels. The wood imparts both flavor and color, as it does for Cognac and Armagnac. Like them, rum is a brandy, but it is made from sugar cane, rather than grapes. Some producers, like Mount Gay in Barbados, label one of their blends just that way: sugar cane brandy."
Rums of Puerto Rico

San German

Porta Coeli Church

Shopping

Artesanias y Folclorica de la Familia Ayala - Loiza. Santiago masks. From San Juan take 187 East to Loiza, cross the bridge into town and continue about two miles; Ayalas on the right). See Traditions Behind the Fiesta Unmasked by Charles Hillinger, May 6, 1990.
Bacardi Anejo Rum
Carvings of Saints - especially the Three Kings
Cigars - Don Collins is a good brand
Coffee - Yaucono coffee is the best
Estudio Arte de Samuel Lind - Rte. 187, Km 6.6, Loíza, 00772 (787-876-1494)
Fruit
Guayabera shirts
Hammocks (hamacas)
Pottery
Rum - look for Barrilito Tres Estrellas (three stars) or Trigo Reserva Añeja
Vejigante masks or Loiza carnival masks

State Parks (El Bosque Estatal)

Los Bosques de Puerto Rico
Bosque Estatal de Piñones - Route 187 between San Juan and Loíza. Be sure to stop at the food kiosks on your way to the park. See the Moon Travel Guide's Puerto Rico's Kiosk Cuisine

Tourism: Information for Travelers to Puerto Rico

36 Hours in San Juan - By Charles Isherwood, New York Times, February 7, 2013.
A Cheap Room Puts Old San Juan Within Reach - Matt Gross, Frugal Traveler, New York Times, April 15, 2007.
Diàlogo Digital - Publication of the University of Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico)
Discover Puerto Rico - Moon Travel Guides
Lonely Planet: Puerto Rico
National Park Service: Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico - Alison Cook, Gourmet, March 2000. Chef Alfredo Ayala shares some of his favorites. "Toward Arecibo, in the rural hamlet of Guayaney, we pay a call on octogenarian Francisco Rosario, whose mustache is frosted with sawdust. In a quirky studio heaped with blocks of tropical wood, Rosario hand-turns the handsome mortars and pestles (the island's original blenders) that are essential to Ayala's kitchen. A mortar made from the dense guayacán tree can add the weight of a bowling ball to your suitcase. And it would be a sin to fly away without paying respects to La Bombonera, the wonderful old coffee shop with famously cranky old waiters. At the long counter, facing an antique, domed coffee machine, you can watch as the big local oranges called chinas are squeezed to order. "But," says Ayala, "you only come here for one thing." I have come to think of that one thing as one of the world's great sandwiches: Ask for a mallorca (La Bombonera's signature snail-shaped yeast roll smothered in powdered sugar) with ham, egg, and cheese. You will be presented with an eccentric combination of salty, sweet, and fried-egg frizzle, all pressed Cuban style and bound up with gooey orange cheese. Chased with strong café con leche, it makes for the kind of memory that is better than any souvenir."
Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association (PRHTA)
The rich palette of Puerto Rico - By Pamela Petro, The Telegraph (UK), 25 March 2009.
See Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico Tourism Company. Government of Puerto Rico
UNESCO World Heritage List
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site
World Factbook: Puerto Rico - Central Intelligence Agency

Transportation

Air Flemenco - (787-724-1818)
Departemento de Transportacion Y Obras Publicas (DTOP)
Isla Nena Air Service - (787-863-4447, 787-863-4449, or 877-812-5144)
Transporte Maritimo: Fajardo - Vieques - Culebra - Ferry Schedule
MN Aviation - (787-791-7008)
Vieques Air Link
Rental Car Companies
Avis Rent-a-Car - (787-253-5926)
Budget Car Rental (787-791-0600)
Charlie Car Rental
Dollar Car Rental (787-791-5500)
Enterprise Rent-a-Car (787-253-3722)
Hertz Rent-a-Car (787-791-0480)
National Car Rental (787-791-1805)
Payless Car Rental (787-625-8880)
Target Rent-a-Car (787-728-1447)
Thrifty Car Rental (787-253-2525)
Visa Car Rental of P.R. (787-791-4120)
Ruta Panorámica - Mayagüez to Maunabo. This magnificant drive through the Cordillera mountains is not for the faint of heart; curves and views abound.