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Native Population Puerto Rico’s native Taíno population—whose hunter-gatherer ancestors settled the island more than 1,000 years before the Spanish arrived—called it Borinquén, and referred to themselves as boricua (a term that is still used today). During his second expedition to the Indies in 1493, Christopher Columbus returned several Taíno captives to Borinquén and claimed the […]
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