1993 Scuba trip! Isla Culebra (Snake Island) is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Idelfonso. It is located approximately seventeen miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, twelve miles west of St. Thomas and nine miles north of Vieques. The island is also known as Isla Chiquita (Little Island) and Ultima Virgen (Last Virgin). Culebra was first settled in 1880 by Cayetano Escudero Sanz. Residents of the island are known as Culebrenses.

Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover the island in 1493. The island was populated by Taíno Indians prior to this and would be used by pirates as a refuge for more than 3 centuries.

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