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Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is one of the fourteen unincorporated territories and one of the two free states associated with self-government status of the United States of America. It is located in America, northeast of the Caribbean, east of the island of Hispaniola and west of the Virgin Islands of the United States. Its west coast is located approximately 1536 kilometers southeast of the coast of Florida, the closest to the continental United States. The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico - the smallest of the Greater Antilles - and a number of smaller cays and islands. Of which the largest are Vieques, Mona and Culebra.

It is an island with a tropical climate and, despite its size, it has a diversity of ecosystems: dry and rainy forests, karstic zone, mountainous areas, coastal and marine ecosystems, lakes, etc. Puerto Rico was an overseas territory of the Spanish Crown from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1493 until the enactment of the Autonomic Charter of Puerto Rico in 1897, being a Spanish province from 1897 until the Spanish-American War of 1898. Four centuries of Spanish administration They gave rise to a Hispano-American culture, with the Spanish language and Catholicism being its most distinguishable elements. The Spaniards built numerous forts, churches and other buildings for public, commercial and residential use, as well as ports, lighthouses and roads. For more than three centuries, Puerto Rico was communicated with the Iberian Peninsula by means of convoys of the Indian Fleet that united Cádiz and San Juan once a year.

Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917, when the United States Congress passed the Jones Act, although its relationship with the United States is similar to that of a state of the Union and it was allowed to draft a Constitution for the management of internal affairs, is subject to the full powers of the US Congress through the Territorial Clause, which means that the power to exercise its sovereignty rests with the Congress of the United States and the existing powers on the island, as it does not enjoy protection in the US Constitution, are revocable. Puerto Ricans can not vote in the presidential elections of the United States, unless they have official residence in any of the fifty states or in the District of Columbia. If this is the case, they can move to their place of residence and vote in person or use the distance voting procedure. On the other hand, despite the Puerto Rican legal status, some international personalities have referred to Puerto Rico as a nation.