The Isleños increased their commercial traffic and immigration to the two remaining Spanish colonies in America, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Manuel González Hernández of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, agree that they formed the bulk of the Jíbaro, or white peasant stock, of the mountainous interior of the island.
Estela Cifre de Loubriel and other scholars of the Canarian migration to America, such as Dr. The number of Canarians that immigrated to Puerto Rico in the first three centuries of Iberian rule is not known to any degree of precision. The first wave of Canarian migration to Puerto Rico seems to be in 1695, followed by others in 1714, 1720, 1731, and 1797. Main articles: Isleños and Canary Islanders The Spanish heritage of Puerto Ricans comes from the many regions of Spain (including Canary Islanders, Asturians, Catalans, Majorcans, Galicians, Castilians, Andalusians, and Basques) The southern city of Ponce is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of the island's first governor. Finally, the American military moved into La Casa Blanca in 1898. The descendants of Ponce de León's family lived in La Casa Blanca for more than 250 years when in 1779 the Spanish Army took control of it.
The original structure didn't last long two years after its construction a hurricane destroyed it and it was rebuilt by Ponce de León's son-in-law Juan García Troche. Their home was built in 1521 by Ponce de Leon but he died in the same year, leaving "La Casa Blanca", or "The White House", to his young son Luis Ponce de León. However, many stayed.Īmong Puerto Rico's founding families were the Castilian Ponce de León family. Some came to the island for just a few years and then returned to Spain. įrom the start of the conquest of Puerto Rico, Castilians ruled over the religious ( Roman Catholicism) and political life. During the 1520s the island took the name of Puerto Rico while the port became San Juan.īronze statue of explorer Juan Ponce de León in Plaza de San José, San Juan. In 1511, a second settlement, San Germán, was established in the southwestern part of the island.
The following year the settlement was abandoned in favor of a nearby islet on the coast, named Borinquen, which had a suitable harbor. The first Spanish settlement, Caparra, was founded on 8 August 1508 by Juan Ponce de León, a lieutenant under Columbus, who later became the first governor of the island.
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