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A Puerto Rican (Spanish: puertorriqueño; Taíno: boricua) is a person who was born in Puerto Rico. People born and raised in other parts of the world most notably in the continental United States of Puerto Rican parents are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans.Puerto Ricans commonly refer to themselves as boricuas. The majority of Puerto Ricans regard themselves as being of mixed Spanish-European descent.