Five centuries of history live in its forts, its streets, its forests, its coastline, and its people. The island that produced the Borinqueneers also produced Roberto Clemente, Julia de Burgos, Rita Moreno, and Sonia Sotomayor. The island that meets the Atlantic with 270 miles of coastline also shelters the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System. The island that built El Morro to defend a hemisphere also built Loíza to preserve the soul of its African heritage intact across five centuries of pressure to let it go.