Salinas is a municipality of Puerto Rico, founded on July 22, 1841. It is located on the southern coast of the island, south of Coamo, Aibonito and Cayey, north of the Caribbean Sea, east of Santa Isabel, and west of Guayama. It owes its name to the amount of salt that was in its costs before its foundation. Its inhabitants are salinense.
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Salinas has been long fishing spot for Puerto Ricans, known for its beaches, its variety of fish.
Although Salinas has no commercial airport, has a military airbase. It also has a military camp for youth, Camp Santiago, which is visited each year by various groups of Boy and Girl Scouts of the USA and other youth groups.
Salinas Bay
Salinas
For decades it has been known as the "Village of Island Mojo." Mojo is a savory sauce used to dip the fried fish that is consumed here. The red mixture has as main ingredients, tomato sauce, oil, garlic, bay leaf and plenty of onions. The stories are narrated say it was in Salinas where he created this dish. Some have been told that he was a native of the Canary Islands, nicknamed "the island" who arrived at the beach and taught salinense shorebirds prepare the mojo. But the most accepted version is that it was Mrs. Euladia Correa, born on the Beach in 1898, who with his particular system has attracted the most discerning palates to his hut, and then to his famous restaurant, making public all the delicacy Puerto Rico . Culinary arts prompted Salinas was baptized as the "Village of Island Mojo."
Sunset in Bahia Salinas
South Road
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