Excerpt from Agricultural Production and Trade of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is an island in the West Indies located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It links the islands of the Greater Antilles, of which it is the smallest, to the west with the bridging islands of the Lesser Antilles stretching to the southeast to the continent of South America. Puerto Rico is slightly larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, with an area of square kilometers square miles). The main island, Vieques, and Culebra are inhabited, but the other smaller islands off the east coast of Puerto Rico are generally devoid of per manent inhabitants. These smaller islands account for less than 2 percent of Puerto Rico's total land area. Puerto Rico has few natural resources other than its location, agricultural and forestry potential, and tourist appeal. Both in the past and in recent years, the island's destiny has been shaped by its location near or at the crossroads of impor tant discovery and transportation routes. Agriculture has long played a key economic role, grudgingly giving way to industry. The island's wide expanses of beaches in a tropical setting have led to an increasingly important tourist industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.