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PUERTO RICO

CONTINGENT: Hispanic American Literary Society
                        New York, NY

A Caribbean island with a Hispanic civilization and remembrances of the pre-Columbian Taino Indians and some African influences. Puerto Rico, a country of marvelous mountain areas and tropical beaches, has produced an extraordinary number of poets and other artists and has preserved some features of its Hispanic heritage with noteworthy purity.