Puerto Rico is a small town in Pando, northern Bolivia, with an associated airport. It is located in the Manuripi-Heath Amazonian Wildlife National Reserve. Founded on May 18, 1890, it was the first departamental capital, before Cobija. It is located at the Confluence of the Manuripi and Tahuamanu Rivers. Every year, in the month of June, the International Recreational Fishing Championship of Puerto Rico takes place at the river confluence, where the two rivers combine to form the river the River Orthon. This river then flows 410 km before it converges with the River Beni.

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Puerto Rico is a small town in Pando, northern Bolivia, with an associated airport. It is located in the Manuripi-Heath Amazonian Wildlife National Reserve. Founded on May 18, 1890, it was the first departamental capital, before Cobija. It is located at the Confluence of the Manuripi and Tahuamanu Rivers. Every year, in the month of June, the International Recreational Fishing Championship of Puerto Rico takes place at the river confluence, where the two rivers combine to form the river the River Orthon. This river then flows 410 km before it converges with the River Beni.

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“¡Puerto Rico es la espada/que detendrá el avance/del imperio sajón!/Sea su herida la última/que en tu suelo latino/haga el vil opresor.”
— Puerto Rico is the sword/that will delay the advance/of the saxon empire!/Let her wound be the last/that on its latin soil/the vile oppressor makes.
“The cause of justice and human dignity for which the people of the United States and the people of Puerto Rico share an equal dedication is embodied in our common citizenship. It has formed a strong foundation for our present association, and it gives us confidence that our future relationship will be even more rewarding to both island and mainland.”
— Lyndon B. Johnson; Message to the People of Puerto Rico on the 50th Anniversary of the Granting of United States Citizenship Online, The American Presidency Project; 2 March 1967
“Let's go, Puerto Ricans, let's go already,/for LIBERTY is waiting, ever so anxious!”
— Lola Rodriguez de Tió, Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature (1974)

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