| Autonomous province of Puerto Rico Provincia Autonóma de Puerto Rico Timeline: Cromwell the Great
OTL equivalent: Puerto Rico | |||
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 Location Puerto Rico
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| Status | Overseas territory (Governorship) of Spain / Iberia | ||
| Capital (and largest city) | San Juan | ||
| Official languages | Spanish (de facto official) and Portuguese (de jure co-official) | ||
| Other languages | Haitian Creole (Kreyol) | ||
| Ethnic groups | European, Afro-Americans and Mestizos | ||
| Religion | Secular state
Roman Catholic, Afro-American syncretic religions, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, Non-Religious, Deism (Cult of Reason) and Atheism |
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| Demonym | Puertorican or Boricua | ||
| Government | Overseas territory (Governorship) of Spain / Iberia | ||
| - | Governor-General | Diego Sotomayor | |
| - | Chief of Government | Julian Fortuño | |
| Legislature | Provincial Deputation | ||
| Autonomous province of Iberia | |||
| - | Cristobal Colon lands on the island | 1493 | |
| - | Puerto Rico becomes part of Viceroyalty of the Antilles | 1823 | |
| - | Puerto Rico becomes part of the Provinces of the Antilles | 1828 | |
| - | Abolition of slavery | 1839 | |
| - | Charter of Autonomy | 1848 | |
| Area | |||
| - | 9,104 km2 3,515 sq mi |
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| Population | |||
| - | estimate | 953 243 | |
| Currency | Spanish dollar (real de ocho, ...-1825), Real (...-1825), Spanish peseta (1825-1844), Iberian maravedí (M, 1844 to date) | ||
| Time zone | GMT−4 | ||
| Date formats | dd/mm/yyyy (CE)Uses the Italo-Iberian Civil Calendar | ||
| Drives on the | right | ||
Puerto Rico is an Iberian territory in the Caribbean, consisting of the island of the same name and adjacent small islands.
Puerto Rico, along Florida and Cuba, formed part of the viceroyalties of the New Spain (1521-1820) and Antilles (1823-1828) of the Spanish Empire, and the Provinces of the Antilles (1828 to 1844) of the Spanish Republic and Iberia.
Puerto Rico is poor in income from local taxes and customs so its dependent on transfers from the central government for public works and private investments. There have been several petitions to make Puerto Rico an autonomous province. IT would enable to have closer economic and political ties to mainland Iberia by having the same status and rights of metropolitan administrative division and not colony.
The Autonomic Constitution (Constitución Autonómica) granted to Cuba and Puerto Rico autonomy, technically bringing the Captaincy General and direct rule to an end. The new government of Puerto Rico consists of a Provincial Deputation and the Governor-General, who carries out his duties in its name, the supreme Authority and names the Chief of Government. The Audiencia of Puerto Rico became the high court for Puerto Rico losing its administrative functions that were transferred to the Governor-General and Provincial Deputation. The Autonomic Constitution gave local government with the establishment of elected town councils (cabildos).
Puerto Rico elects deputies to the national legislature of the Spanish Republic (1825-1842) and later Iberia (1842 to date).
Agriculture is the primary mean of production, mainly livestock, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, and citrus fruits are the primary cultivation which are exported to Iberia. Slaves were employed in farms, mines, households, and other aspects until their freedom in 1839. The abolition of slavery did not affect much Puerto Rico as in Cuba that had a brief secessionist war.
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