Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Geographic Locations > Islands > West Indies > Puerto Rico
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > West Indies > Puerto Rico
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > West Indies > Puerto Rico
Geographic Locations > Americas > Caribbean Region > West Indies > Puerto Rico

Preferred term

Puerto Rico  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • an island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies; for Puerto Rico as a geog entity (as in epidemiol articles) & for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico; for Puerto Ricans living in the United States as an ethnic group, coord PUERTO RICO /ethnol (NIM) + HISPANIC OR LATINO (IM)

Scope note

  • An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436)

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011647

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 7/12/21