1. A scientific study sponsored by National Geographic, 2014, established that over 80% of Puerto Rican men had West Eurasian (European) Y Chromosome DNA , and roughly 60% of Puerto Ricans carry maternal lineages of Native American origin.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/07/28/dna-portrait-of-puerto-rican-ancestry/
2. CIA World Factbook (updated Jan 2018) gives us the following for Puerto Rico residents:
white 75.8%, black/African American 12.4%, other 8.5% (includes American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander, and others), mixed 3.3%
3. Another source provides the following:
Ethnic Composition--white (mostly Spanish origin) 76.2%, Black 6.9%, Asian 0.3%, Amerindian 0.2%, mixed 4.4%, other 12% (2007)
https://knowpuertorico.weebly.com/demographics.html
4. Scientifically, there is evidence that over 80% of the Puerto Rican men carry Y DNA indicators pointing to its origin in Eurasia or Europe. The majority of Puerto Ricans self-identify as “white” in most reports, and about 12% describe themselves as “black”.
Puerto Rico... una invitacion a saborear la isla del encanto!
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