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===Puerto Rico===
In the second voyage of Columbus in 1593, Columbus took some canaries to Puerto Rico. Then in the early sixteenth century, according to historians of Puerto Rico, were exported as slaves to some Guanches Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, the first wave of Canarian migration seems to be 1695 in [[Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico]] with Juan Fernández Franco de Medina [born 1646 in [[Santa Cruz de Tenerife]] and was [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] (1st term (1685–1690) and 2nd term (1695–1697)], who arrived with 20 Canarian families.<ref>[http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/educacion/culturacanaria/emigracion/La_emigracion_canaria.htm Emigration to Puerto Rico]</ref> This was followed by others in 1714, 1720, 1731, and 1797.
Between 1720 and 1730 some 176 families with a total of 882 ''Isleños'' or Canarians emigrated, with 60% married and the rest married in Puerto Rico.
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The numbers of Canarians to Puerto Rico in its first three centuries is not known to any degree of precision. However, Dr. Estela Cifre de Loubriel and other scholars of the Canarian Migration to America, like Dr. Manuel González Hernández, of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, agree that they formed the bulk of the [[Jíbaro]] or white peasant stock of the island.<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prhgs/passengers_01.htm Canarian Migration to Spanish America]</ref>
The [[Isleños]] increased their commercial traffic and emigration concentrated to the two [[Hispanic America|Spanish-American]] colonies, Puerto Rico and particularly Cuba. Following the [[Spanish-American War]] of 1898, Canarian immigration to the Americas continued. Successive waves of Canary Island immigration came to Puerto Rico, where entire villages were formed of relocated islanders.<ref>[http://www.canaryislandsusa.com/en/Demographics.aspx www.canaryislandsusa.com]</ref>
In the 1860s, Canarian emigration to the [[Americas]] took place at the rate of over 2000 per year, at a time when the total islands' population was 237,036. In the 2-year period 1885-6, more than 4500 Canarians emigrated to Spanish possessions, with only 150 to Puerto Rico. Between 1891-1895, Canary emigration to Puerto Rico was 600. With these being official figures; when illegal or concealed emigration is taken into account, the numbers would be much larger.<ref>[http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/Canary.htm The Spanish of the Canary Islands]</ref>
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