Yo nací en Cataño,  Puerto Rico.  Cataño es un pueblo muy pequeño pero hay mucha gente y es bien lindo.  Cataño queda frente a la capital de Puerto Rico, San Juan.  En Puerto Rico hay muchas playas y el sol es bien caliente, y por eso la gente casi siempre están en la playa.
I was born in Cataño.  Cataño is a small but pretty town, full of people.
It is located very close to Puerto Rico's capital city, San Juan.  There are many beaches in Puerto Rico, and the sun is very hot so the people are always at the beach. 

A view of the bay in Cataño

San Juan, pronounced san HWAHN, is the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico.  It is also the island's chief seaport.  The older part of the city lies on an island off the northern coast of Puerto Rico.  Newer residential districts lie on the main island.
Four bridges and a highway over the water link these sections.  Trade, manufacturing, and government are the chief activities.  Some of the Spanish forts and the walls around the older part of the city are over 250 years old.  San Juan National HIstoric site, covering 48.25 acres, contains many of these fortifications.  Morro Castle, begun in 1539 and complete in the late 1700's, lies on a bluff at the entrance to the bay which is one of the best harbors in the West Indies.

By Luisa
source: WorldBook 99
 

El Morro Fortress, San Juan	A beautiful balcony in Old San Juan
The Botanical Gardens	Plaza de la Dársenas

The Ciboney were the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico.   They came from Cuba. They gathered food, fished and they lived off the land. Remains of their culture have been found at beaches and water areas. No arrowheads or weapons like that were found so this shows they probably didn’t have iron or other metals. The Igneri were the next to inhabit Puerto Rico. They came from Venezuela. The Igneri left traces of their culture behind by leaving multicolored pottery. In 1000 A.D, the Taino replaced the Igneri. The Taino were skilled engineers and sailors who traded with other civilizations in the Americas. They farmed the land and, basically, the only meat they ate was pork. Even though the Taino were a peaceful people they were always at war with a neighboring tribe called the Carib who had wiped out other civilizations and it seemed they would wipe out Taino from Borinquen.
 
 
 

Check out these links for even more information . . .
http://latinoculture.about.com/culture/latinoculture/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.taino%2Dtribe.org/tainos.htm

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,72819+1+70973,00.html

http://www.zusas.uni-halle.de/~robison/classes/NativeAmerica/Spanish-Caribbean.htm
This link has a ton of great information on the Carib, Taino, and Ciboney tribes.