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Puente Nuevo
The Puente Nuevo ("New Bridge") is an 18th-century masonry bridge in Ronda, Spain, spanning the 90-meter-deep Tajo gorge to link the old town with the Mercadillo district.
Puente romano de Alconetar
Puente romano de Alconetar (Puente de Mantible): ruined Roman bridge over the Tajo at Garrovillas de Alconétar, Cáceres, on the Vía de la Plata; segmental-arch bridge of the 1st-2nd century AD, relocated stone by stone in 1969 when the Alcántara reservoir flooded its site.
Puente sobre el Arroyo Rabanales
Puente sobre el Arroyo Rabanales, a Roman-origin five-arch bridge over the Arroyo Rabanales at Las Quemadas, Córdoba, Spain, on the Via Augusta; carried the N-IV road until 1928, now abandoned and deteriorated.
PUEO (balloon experiment)
PUEO, the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations, is a NASA balloon experiment that flew over Antarctica in 2025 to detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos as the successor to ANITA.
Puer aeternus
Puer aeternus, Latin for eternal boy, is a Jungian archetype of the man who resists adult commitment, treated fully in Marie-Louise von Franz's 1970 The Problem of the Puer Aeternus; its opposite is the senex, its feminine counterpart the puella aeterna, and its pop descendant Peter Pan syndrome.
Pueraria
Pueraria (kudzu vine genus) is a genus of tuberous-rooted climbing legumes in Fabaceae, tribe Phaseoleae, native to Asia and the W. Pacific; established by de Candolle in 1825, later shown polyphyletic and split into five genera including Haymondia and Toxicopueraria.
Puerarin
Puerarin, also known as kakonein or daidzein-8-C-glucoside, is a major bioactive isoflavone of the kudzu root Pueraria lobata, whose puerarin injection has been used in China since the 1990s for cardiovascular conditions.
Puerperal osteomalacia
Puerperal osteomalacia (ICD-10 M83.0, ICD-11 JB44.6), also called postpartum or lactation-related osteomalacia, is postpartum bone softening from defective mineralization due to calcium and vitamin D depletion, with bone pain, Looser zones, and recovery after weaning.
Puerperal sepsis
Puerperal sepsis, also called childbed fever or puerperal fever, is an infection of the genital tract after childbirth and a leading cause of maternal death worldwide.
Puerto Cabello
Puerto Cabello, Venezuelan Caribbean port city in Carabobo state near Valencia; last Spanish royalist stronghold, taken by Páez on 8 November 1823; now Venezuela's busiest container port, run by Bolipuertos.
Puerto Cruz
Puerto Cruz refers mainly to Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife, Spain), a tourist municipality of 31,137 people, and Puerto La Cruz (Anzoátegui, Venezuela), a Caribbean port city; distinct places sharing a Spanish name.
Puerto Escondido
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico: Pacific coast city and port in San Pedro Mixtepec, famed for the Zicatela "Mexican Pipeline" surf break, its 2026 World Surfing Reserve designation, PXM airport, and fast-growing tourism economy.
Puerto La Cruz refinery
The Puerto La Cruz refinery (Refinería de Puerto La Cruz) is a Venezuelan crude oil refinery in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, built by Gulf Refining and operated by PDVSA since nationalization in 1976.
Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt is a port city in southern Chile, capital of the Los Lagos Region. Founded in 1853, it is the center of Chilean salmon farming.
Puerto Peñasco
Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) is a city and resort municipality in northwest Sonora, Mexico, on the upper Gulf of California near the Arizona border; a former shrimp-fishing port now driven by tourism, seafood exports, and a large solar plant.
Puerto Peñasco Solar Project
The Puerto Peñasco Solar Project (Central Fotovoltaica Puerto Peñasco) is a solar power plant built by Mexico's utility CFE near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, planned to reach 1,000 MW.
Puerto power station
The Puerto power station is a thermal power complex in the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with 1,747 MW of installed capacity, owned by Central Puerto.
Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa, capital city of Palawan, Philippines (MIMAROPA). Founded 1872, chartered 1970; largest Philippine city by area at 253,982 ha; population 316,384 (2024); home of the UNESCO-listed Subterranean River National Park.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River, is a 22,202 ha UNESCO World Heritage park in Palawan, Philippines, with an 8.2 km tidal underground river flowing directly into the sea, inscribed in 1999 and named a New 7 Wonders of Nature site in 2011.
Puerto Rican cuisine
Puerto Rican cuisine, or cocina criolla, blends Taíno, Spanish, and African influences. Defined by sofrito with culantro and ají dulce, adobo, achiote sazón, mofongo, arroz con gandules, and pernil, with about 85% of food imported.
Puerto Rican government-debt crisis
The Puerto Rican government-debt crisis was the accumulation of about $70 billion in bond debt plus $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, with defaults beginning in 2015 and restructuring under the federal PROMESA law.
Puerto Rican independence movement
Puerto Rican independence movement: the pro-sovereignty current from the 1868 Grito de Lares against Spain through autonomism, U.S. rule after 1898, COINTELPRO-era repression, and 31% support in the 2024 status referendum.
Puerto Rican Independence Party
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a green, social-democratic Puerto Rican party founded in 1946 that seeks independence from the United States; in 2024 it allied with MVC as Alianza de País.
Puerto Rican migration to the United States
The movement of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland, which began after 1898 and, because Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, is internal migration rather than immigration.
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, PNPR) is a Puerto Rican political party founded in 1922 that advocates the island's independence from the United States.
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s were armed Nationalist Party uprisings against US rule, culminating in a 1954 shooting attack on Congress.
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (puertorriqueños, boricuas) are the people of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, and their diaspora; U.S. citizens since 1917, over 6 million now live in the states, chiefly New York, after the post-1945 Great Migration.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) is a U.S. Caribbean territory acquired from Spain in 1898; its people have been U.S. citizens since 1917, gained commonwealth self-government in 1952, and remain without federal voting representation.
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands (FEOW ID 215) is a freshwater ecoregion of the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World framework, covering rivers of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands, habitat type tropical and subtropical coastal rivers.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA; Spanish: Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica) is Puerto Rico's public power corporation, the sole electric utility serving about 1.5 million customers.