Music of Puerto Rico centers. After the island was taken over by Spain, the music and dance of Puerto Rico consisted of a combination of the harmonious musical styles that are borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance. Salsa is a Spanish word that means sauce. It refers to the mixture of different rhythms composed of different Latin, African and Caribbean dances. Salsa is said to be first created around the 1960s and became popular to the non-Latino world drastically. The salsa dance is similar to the mambo dance. Salsa dancing is structured in six
Puerto Rican oriole Puerto Rican oriole The Puerto Rican oriole ("Icterus portoricensis") is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, and genus "Icterus" or New World blackbirds. This species is a part of a subgroup of orioles (Clade A) that includes the North American orchard oriole, "Icterus spurius", and the hooded oriole, "Icterus cucullatus". The Puerto Rican oriole was previously grouped with Cuban oriole ("Icterus melanopsis"), Hispaniolan oriole ("Icterus dominicensis"), and Bahama oriole ("Icterus northropi") as a single species, ("Icterus dominicensis"). In 2010, all four species became recognized as full species by the American Ornithologists' Union. The oriole is endemic to Puerto