Puerto Rico,in pictures.WEPA!
Nuestra cultura en imágenes.
Bomba dancers. Vejigante masks. The flag on a gate in Old San Juan. The coquí in the trees. These pictures carry centuries of Taíno, Spanish, and African culture, alive in color and sound.
- Puerto Rican culture, in pictures
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Centuriesof Taíno, Spanish,and African culture.
Lo que llevan estas imágenes.
The bomba dancer in white — the rhythm came from enslaved Africans on seventeenth-century sugar plantations. The vejigante mask — Spanish medieval tradition crossed with Taíno and African craft, now a Puerto Rican symbol of its own. The flag on the gate in Viejo San Juan — painted, not hung, because it belongs to the street itself.
Every picture on this page is free to share under its licence. The source and the photographer are listed.
Send us photos from the day.
Comparta sus fotos.
If you take pictures at the festival, send them to us. We add the best ones to this page.
The gallery grows every year.