SOME FACTS ABOUT PUERTO RICO!

SOME FACTS ABOUT PUERTO RICO Walmart in Carolina, Puerto Rico broke the selling records of all Walmart stores

Puerto Rico is the country with the most cars per square mile in the world:146 vehicles per street mile and 4,300 vehicles per square mile.

Plaza Las Americas mall in San Juan is the most profitable mall per squarefoot in the world

The highest grossing Borders book store in US territory is located in PlazaLas Americas Mall, in Puerto Rico.

Busiest Toys "R" Us in the world is also in Plaza Las Americas,Puerto Rico.

The highest grossing Sears store in the World is in Puerto Rico.

The highest selling Kmart in the US is in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The Radio Shack store in Plaza Las Americas mall is the busiestand highest grossing Radio Shack in the world.

The largest JC Penney store in the world (a full 4 stories) islocated at Plaza Las Americas mall, in Puerto Rico.

The Port of San Juan is the fourth busiest seaport in theWestern HemisphereSan Juan is the oldest city in US territory (Older than the city ofSt. Augustine, FL) and was founded in 1508 by Juan Ponce de Leon.

Piña Colada was "born" in PR in 1954.

The legal drinking age is 18.

Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe pageant a record five timesPuerto Rico has the only rain forest in the US- El Yunque.

The place in the world with more pharmaceutical companies persquare mile is Puerto Rico

There are about 1,100 people per square mile, a ratio higher thanwithin any of the 50 states in the United States.

Puerto Rico's populationdensity per square miles is among the world's highest - only Bangladesh,The Maldives, Barbados, Taiwan, South Korea and the city-states of HongKong and Singapore are more crowded.

Puerto Rico is the third country in the world with more physiciansin proportion to its population

The Camuy river in Puerto Rico is among the top three longestunderground rivers in the world

Puerto Rico has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption inthe world

The longest pool in the world is located in a hotel in Dorado, PRIt is estimated that there is more Nickel in the mountains ofPuerto Rico than the whole United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.

There are more Puerto Ricans living in the rest of the United States than inthe island of Puerto Rico itself

La Fortaleza in San Juan is the oldest executive mansion in the New World

The state of Florida was discovered by Puerto Rico's first governor, Don JuanPonce de Leon

The first shot fired by the United States in World War I was in Puerto Rico byLt. Teofilo Marxuach.

86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto RicoPuerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.

The world's highest concentrations of bioluminescent waters are in PuertoRico

Coffee grown and brewed in Puerto Rico is the official coffee of theVatican.

Puerto Rico ranks 6^th in the world when it comes to college graduatesPuerto Ricans are the only people in the world who regularlyapplaud when a plane lands and when it reaches the gate

Puerto Rico has more Gas Stations, Churches, Cars, Roads, and Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world.

World biggest and largest radio telescope is in Puerto RicoTelemundo, the second largest Spanish language television station inthe United States, was founded in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has more rivers per square mile than any other place inthe world..The second radio station to be inaugurated in the US was in PR.

The longest running TV program was in Puerto Rico.The first Emmy went to a Puerto Rican... Jose Ferrer.

He also got the Academy award for the same role.

Rita Moreno got those two and one for Best Actress in a Broadwayshow.

No one else has matched that.

The most outstanding soldier in Europe at the end of the SecondWW was chosen from the Pueto Rican 66^th Infantry.

One of the three still living WWI veterans is a Puerto Rican.NOT TOO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND...