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Pasa loco de contento con su cargamento para la ciudad, - para la cuidad
lleva en su pensamiento todo un mundo lleno de felicidad, - de felicidad
piensa remediar su situación del hogar que es toda su ilusión
y alegre, el jibarito va cantando así diciendo así, bailando asi por el camino:
"si yo vendo la carga, mi dios querido un traje a mi viejita voy a comprar"


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Adoquines. Even the cobblestones, or adoquines as they are called in Spanish, have color in Old San Juan. Rather than being cut from stone or cast as bricks these cobblestones were an ingenious use of slag from Spain’s iron foundries. Slag is the waste when iron is refined and was usually piled in huge slagheaps at foundries, but cast into blocks the slag made terrific long lasting cobblestones. The stones were brought to the island as ballast in Conquistadores ships in the 16th century and their blue tint gives the streets a colorful look. Adoquines tend to be slippery when wet.

Giant hutía. Petroglyphs, carved into exposed rock surfaces are protected around the world. They are valued as a historical record of the people that lived thousands of years ago. We can learn how prior humans hunted and even what animals where their prey. This particular petroglyph is of a nearly extinct hutía, a large rodent mammal that was hunted by the Taínos all over the Caribbean for food. Hutias are moderately large cavy-like rodents that inhabit the Caribbean Islands. They range in size from 20 to 60 centimetres (8-24 inches), and can weigh up to 7 kilograms (15 pounds)[1]. 20 species of hutia have been identified, and half may be extinct. Among those that perished were the giant hutias, a Taíno of Borikén favorite.


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