Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1403
Land area (2000): 0.343822 sq. miles (0.890496 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000275 sq. miles (0.000711 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.344097 sq. miles (0.891207 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85971
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.426587 N, 65.835676 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vieques
Housing Units (2000): 4388
Land area (2000): 50.828563 sq. miles (131.645368 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 213.153575 sq. miles (552.065201 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 263.982138 sq. miles (683.710569 sq. km)
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.125664 N, 65.456036 W
Headwords:
Vieques, PR
Vieques Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR
Usage examples of "vieques".
Over the course of fifteen years, before the clinic was absorbed by Bethesda Hospital in Maryland, over fifteen hundred children were born in Vieques, and of these, nearly two hundred were the result of in vitro fertilization, donor sperm and, later, fertility drugs.
The other Vieques, very much of the twentieth or even the twenty-first century, was host to a vast United States naval installation that dominated both its eastern and western extremities.
Peter was busy blowing things up on the eastern range of Vieques, working at that time on rail guns, huge cumbersome devices that shot super-charged particles via what seemed now like medieval technology.
A scant six miles from the east end of Puerto Rico and officially Puerto Rican territory, Vieques was an island tom between contrasting eras.
It was composed of 31,000 acres, 8,600 on Puerto Rico, and some 22,000 acres on Vieques itself.
The eastern end of Vieques was a gunnery and bombing range, and had for three decades been the center of fierce controversy Both the local community and various environmental groups had fought its existence since the 1960s, angrily claiming that it had more craters than the moon.
Hank Flannagan, Cap Chu and Rosemarie Wiener got off at Vieques Airport knowing only that they were in for an exciting surprise, and that they should be prepared to stay.
Paste his picture to the wall, the one from Vieques, surround it with candles.
The flight to Vieques didn't leave until the following afternoon, so there was time to kill.
Navy took over three quarters of Vieques Island for training and the testing of ordnance.
If I have been to Vieques, she found herself thinking, something traumatic or unmentionable must have happened here.
That mysterious voice from the Internet haunted her: IN OTHER WORDS, ELIZABETH, WISH YOU WERE HERE- Whether or not she had been on Vieques before, she felt deeply that she belonged here now and that to leave would be cowardice.
Her unshakable feeling of having been to Vieques before, almost as if she had lived here as a child, what did that have to do with anything?
Ahead, Peter could make out the lights of the Vieques airport, but when he glanced back again, the Humvee was no more than twenty yards behind them.
What you saw back in Vieques was only a fraction of what they're capable of.