Puerto Rico name meaning what was in the island consider rich port?

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Puerto Rico name meaning what was in the island consider rich port?

Answer 1

Puerto Rico was first named San Juan after John the Baptist.  Due to the natural beauty, the tropical island that it is, and because of the water, flora and fauna, it was then given the name of Puerto Rico.  Which is Rich Port, also because many ship did and still dock here.  It is like a pit stop to all ships going North or South bound from and to the States.  There was gold here but it was just a small amount hundreds of years ago.  If there still is gold, it would be hard to find which the Spanish were looking for when they saw the taino indian chief or Cacique with a cord around his neck with a small gold medallion.  Also, chalk was taken out of the mountains near the center of the island and it was exported. It is found in Aguas Buenas in the Sierra la Tiza.  Which is where men would did out the chalk and mules were used to carry it from the mountain down to the towns for sale.  But basicaly, Puerto Rico stands for the beauty that exists as a tropical Island.

Answer 2

The island was once known to have lots of gold and it's very rich in it's natural resources.

Answer 3

To the Spaniards it was a rich port full of new things  to  explore...

Answer 4

Christopher Columbus named the island that we know today as Puerto Rico with the name "San Juan Bautista", or Saint John the Baptist.  16 years later, Juan Ponce de León and his crew founded the city of Puerto Rico ("Rich Port", indeed) in a natural harbor in the northern part of the island.  The names were later switched (no one really knows how), and the island took the name of the city and vice versa.

Answer 5

The Taino indians made the mistake of showing Columbus the gold nuggets that were plentiful in their rivers.