Calle de Puerto Rico
Named after Puerto Rico, the Caribbean island, within the Madrid neighbourhood that devoted its entire street map to Spanish American geography.
The name travels to the Caribbean. Calle de Puerto Rico recalls the island that Columbus christened in 1493 as San Juan Bautista and that the Taíno called Borikén. The name Puerto Rico settled around the main port, and over time the names swapped: the city came to be called San Juan and the island remained Puerto Rico.
The street belongs to the Hispanoamérica neighbourhood, in Chamartín, with a street map of countries and cities across the Atlantic: Puerto Rico walks beside Colombia, Nicaragua and Chile. To stroll the neighbourhood is to read a map of the Americas in blue plaques a few metres from the Santiago Bernabéu.