Physical Geography
Puerto Rico is 110 by 35 miles in size (161 km. x 55 km) and is the farthest east of the four major islands that form the Greater Antilles. The island is located 1,597 miles south of New York, 3,965 south-west of Madrid, and 550 miles north of Caracas, Venezuela. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south. Three islands are situated off the coast of Puerto Rico: the municipalities of Vieques and Culebra (Dewey) to the east, and Mona Island to the west. By air, Puerto Rico is two and a half hours south-east of Miami, three and a half hours from New York, four and a half hours from Chicago and seven and a half hours from Los Angeles, California.
In 1898, the Spanish government ceded Puerto Rico to the United States as a result of a treaty to end the Spanish-American War. Consequently, the Puerto Rican people became U.S. citizens enabling them to travel and live in the United States and those on the mainland to do the same on the island.
Jacqueline Córdova-Ferrer
Graduada de Columbia University en Nueva York, obtuvo dos maestrías y se certificó como Doctora en Educación en el Teachers College de la misma institución. Aparte de su incursión académica en la ciudad de los rascacielos, también se dedica al fotoperiodismo, habiendo sido corresponsal en los años 80 para el periódico El Mundo de Puerto Rico. Publicó un folleto conmemorativo dedicado a la celebración centenaria de la fundación de la Estatua de la Libertad conteniendo fotos y gráficas ahora publicadas en LO QUE USTED QUIERE SABER de las TORRES GEMELAS de NUEVA YORK. Actualmente reside en su país natal de Puerto Rico. Ha dirigido desde el 1987 la revista RECONDITO. Es autora y editora de ésta como de otras publicaciones
Jacqueline Cordova- Ferrer
A graduate of Columbia University in New York City(M.A., Med.), she was also certified as a Doctor in Education in its renowned institution of Teachers College. While living in the Iron City, she taught at various universities. It was much later in her career that she decided to collaborate with photojournalistic articles which were published in international publications, at one time being correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo of Puerto Rico. Apart from her profesional career, Jacqueline promotes activities oriented towards world peace and social justice. Our editor is resolute in her ideas that TOURISM is a way and an economic means, a vehicle of the New Millennium, a reuniting principle for people in her own country as well as for people around the world. She firmly believes that TOURISM is also simultaneously a formidable crossover factor for countries of different cultures beyond political boundaries
La revista Recóndito ha estado publicándose desde el 1987. Incluye artículos en íngles y español, muy en especialmente aquellas que ayudan a esclarecer la temática del turismo puertorriqueño; lo socioeconómico, su gente, historia, cultura, el folklor y de su belleza natural manifestada en lo escénico de sus paisajes, su flora y fauna.
Recóndito is published since 1987, edited and supervised by Jacqueline Cordova-Ferrer. Raised in a journalistic background, provided our editor the enthusiasm to start RECONDITO magazine, and to establish a company dedicated to advertising, photojournalism, and to promote the tourism of Puerto Rico.
