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They are mostly known as islas municipios or municipalities of Puerto Rico, [4] with Vieques being popularly known among residents of Puerto Rico as Isla Nena. [5] As part of Puerto Rico, the so called Spanish Virgin Islands have been under the control of the United States since the Spanish–American War in 1898, and up until then belonged to ...
In 1948, Emilio Pastor Santos of the Spanish National Research Council found that the charts and maps up to 1899 had shown that Kapingamarangi and a few other islands had never been considered part of the Caroline Islands, were not included in the description of the territory transferred to Germany and were never ceded by Spain; therefore ...
An archipelago of seven sun-drenched islands 100 miles off the north-west shoulder of Africa make up the Canary Islands on the Atlantic Ocean.. Chiefly celebrated for year-round vitamin D and ...
Soon, trade links with Cartagena were greater than those with Guatemala. [citation needed] On 4 July 1818, a French corsair, Louis-Michel Aury, with 400 men and 14 ships flying the Argentine flag, captured Old Providence and St. Catherine islands. The island was populated by white English-speaking Protestants and their slaves.
Location of the Galápagos Islands relative to continental Ecuador. The Galápagos Islands ( Spanish: Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator 900 km (560 mi) west of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of slightly over ...
Administrator. SINANPE - SERNANP. The Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System [1] ( Spanish: Reserva Nacional Sistema de Islas, Islotes y Puntas Guaneras; RNSIIPG) [2] is a protected area of the Peruvian State that includes 22 islands, islets and groups of islands as well as 11 points along the Peruvian coast from Piura to Tacna.
Mallorca. Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands.
Ibiza ( Spanish: [iˈβiθa]; Catalan: Eivissa, locally [əjˈvisə]; see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the city of Valencia. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands in area, but the second-largest by population.