... that the Puerto Rico Trench, roughly parallel to the island and 75 miles north, is home to the deepest submarine depression in the North Atlantic Ocean, and that the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, the
Milwaukee Depth (27,493 ft / 8,380 m), lies within the trench?
... that the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico is one of the oldest protected areas in the Western Hemisphere by virtue of having been set aside by the Spanish Crown in 1876 while Puerto Rico was still part of the
Spanish Empire? Was designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
... that Flamenco Beach located in
Culebra was rated the second most beautiful beach in the world?
... that the Baños de Coamo are Puerto Rico's only thermal springs?
... that the Common coquí or Coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) a
frog native to Puerto Rico, is a very important aspect of
Puerto Rican culture and it has become an unofficial territorial symbol of Puerto Rico?[1]
... that
Puerto Rico's beaches come in every size, color, and form, from the pure white dunes of
Isabela to the black volcanic sands near Punta Santiago?[2]
^Rios-López, N. and R. Thomas. 2007. A new species of palustrine Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Puerto Rico. Zootaxa 1512: 51–64.