Culebra
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Sep 16, 2026
Neville JamesHOST
Puerto Rico.
Neville JamesHOST
Culebra.
Neville JamesHOST
Vieques.
Neville JamesHOST
St. Thomas, St. John.
Neville JamesHOST
How are you? I'm doing good.
Neville JamesHOST
Now, can we get a forecast for today here in the territory and Culebra, Vieques, and Puerto Rico?
speaker_2GUEST
Yeah.
speaker_2GUEST
So we are having some passing showers across the island, and we will have that influence from an upper-level low to the west of us.
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Neville JamesHOST
Maniwan, Sagento, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, Water Island, the BBI.
Neville JamesHOST
Yeah.
Neville JamesHOST
Culebra.
Neville JamesHOST
Vehicles.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
Cattle raising is an important feature.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The inhabitants of Culebra, or Snake Island, 17 miles east of Cape San Juan, live by fishing and woodcutting.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The soil of the island is barren, and the hills are covered with a low growth of timber of little value.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
About 12 miles south of Ponce is Coffin Island.
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Verla VieiraNARRATOR
General J.P. Sanger, Inspector General, was appointed Director of the Census with his office in Washington.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The island was at once divided into seven census departments, with a supervisor appointed over each.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The islands of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona were included in the division.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
These seven departments were subdivided into 917 enumeration districts.
Windsor MannGUEST
Uh, and I mean that, and I'm in the city and if you go out of this city, it gets even better.
Windsor MannGUEST
Culebra, Rincon, Aguadilla, uh, they're on the West coast.
Windsor MannGUEST
Uh, it's just crazy, um, how pretty it is.
Windsor MannGUEST
And on Culebra, uh, there's, I think it, what's it called? Flamenco beach.
Windsor MannGUEST
Um, there are old tanks leftover.
Windsor MannGUEST
Like there are literally tanks in the water.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines was the first unit to use the revamped Manley.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
It used rubber boats to execute its 23 February 1940 assault landing against Culebra in the Caribbean.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
satisfied by the utility of the destroyer transport the navy redesignated manly yet again this time as the lead ship of a new class a p d one the a p d designation denoted a high-speed transport by the end of nineteen forty the navy yards had reactivated five of manly's sister ships and converted them in the same fashion in its haste the navy had left out any semblance of amenities for embarked marines when lieutenant colonel edson took his battalion on board the a p d squadron in the summer of nineteen forty one each troop compartment was nothing more than an empty space no ventilation no bunks and just four wash basins for one hundred thirty men it took a high-level investigation launched by one marine's letter to his congressman to get the billeting spaces upgraded These original six APDs would be the only ones available until the Navy rushed to complete more in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
Aaron BennettNARRATOR
As the two Raider battalions moved out into the Pacific, so did the APDs.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
Cattle raising is an important feature.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The inhabitants of Culebra, or Snake Island, 17 miles east of Cape San Juan, live by fishing and woodcutting.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The soil of the island is barren, and the hills are covered with a low growth of timber of little value.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
About 12 miles south of Ponce is Coffin Island.
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Verla VieiraNARRATOR
End of chapter 14 THE FIRST AMERICAN CENSUS the taking of the national census marks an important era in the history of a people from the first census recorded in history fifteen hundred b c down to the census of nineteen hundred in the united states each enumeration of a people has marked the movement of its national life whether forward or backward the first census recorded the sum of the congregation of the children of israel after their families according to the number of the names every male by their poles by the last united states census and twelfth in our history not only are the names of the men given but also those of both women and children together with the age place of birth occupation ability to read and write and many other important matters as soon as porto rico became a part of the united states plans were set on foot for taking a census it was necessary to know the exact number of people on the island the proportion of males and females the number of adults able to read and write and the number of children needing an education home life school life as well as the business life of the future and the health of the people depend upon the correct understanding of the actual condition of the island how to multiply the products of the soil how to increase the advantages of suffrage how to promote good government how to unite the interests of the people more closely the solution of these and a hundred other problems would be rendered much easier by a thorough census of the island an order was issued by the war department september eighth eighteen ninety nine authorizing the taking of the census the first article reads thus by order of the president a census of the population of the agricultural products and of the educational conditions of porto rico shall be taken on the tenth day of november and completed by or before the twentieth day of december eighteen ninety nine and General J.P. Sanger, Inspector General, was appointed Director of the Census with his office in Washington.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The island was at once divided into seven census departments, with a supervisor appointed over each.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
The islands of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona were included in the division.
Verla VieiraNARRATOR
These seven departments were subdivided into 917 enumeration districts.
Luz BrowneGUEST
That was my grandmother property between those two places.
Luz BrowneGUEST
My grandmother was from Culebra.
Luz BrowneGUEST
My grandfather was from the same area.
Luz BrowneGUEST
And then my other grandparents was from Vieques.
Lya IngelsGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Neville JamesHOST
Um, and what about, um, Vieques and Culebra? Same, eh, everybody will be experiencing the same thing like the Virgin Islands?
Lya IngelsGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Lya IngelsGUEST
Uh, at least for, for, uh, the pattern with the tropical wave, at least for the, for Vieques and Culebra it's going to be dissimilar because of the showers, you know, affecting first probably the US Virgin Islands and then moving all the way through, through, through the Vieques and Culebra municipality.
Lya IngelsGUEST
According to the models here, showers tend to be more impra- you know, not, not more impressive but extreme first on the US Virgin Islands and then, uh, start to diminish because of obviously the, you know, the interaction with the islands and then start in the afternoon across the big island of Puerto Rico because of the total topography.
Lya IngelsGUEST
So for them it's going to be mostly passing showers with the, with the...
Lya IngelsGUEST
You guys probably will see some isolated scattered showers more than the, the, the Vieques and Culebra.
Lya IngelsGUEST
But it's going to be variable so it's ra- it's, it's, there, there is a possibility to s- to see showers again.
Morgan BarbeauGUEST
Yeah, he's great.
Tanner BarbeauGUEST
If you ever find yourself in Puerto Rico or go to the island of Culebra and want bonefish, permit, tarpon, they're all there.
Jason ShemchukHOST
Okay.
Jason ShemchukHOST
Maybe we'll link to that guy in the show notes.
Tanner BarbeauGUEST
You know, that's a double edged sword.
Tanner BarbeauGUEST
What she said, too, is like it is cool because we, you know, we helped this guy.
Tanner BarbeauGUEST
But at the same time, people are going to say you guys spot burned and you're going to ruin Culebra.
Tanner BarbeauGUEST
And this was like there's going to be those people that were like, oh, that was my secret fishing zone before you guys put a YouTube video out there.
Manuel RamosGUEST
Puerto Rico and north central to northwestern Puerto Rico.
Manuel RamosGUEST
The area that didn't receive much rain was the southwestern tip and Culebra.
Neville JamesHOST
The southeastern
Manuel RamosGUEST
tip.
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