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The distance between two ports in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the islands nearby, as 787daily's passages page gives it: NOAA's Distances Between United States Ports where its table gives the pair (basis 'noaa'), else the straight line between the two harbors' World Port Index positions (basis 'straight': the route sailed is longer), with the time at a speed, the initial heading in degrees true and whether it runs into the trades (upwind), with them or across, and what CBP asks (arriving in Puerto Rico from the Virgin Islands or abroad means reporting on arrival). Ports by name or id: San Juan, Fajardo, Culebra, Vieques, Ponce, Mayagüez, St Thomas (Charlotte Amalie), St John (Cruz Bay), St Croix (Christiansted), Tortola (Road Town), St Martin, St Barth, Antigua, Samaná, Santo Domingo, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and more. Cite 787daily.com/water/sailing/passages/.

Puerto Rico's rules on the water, as 787daily's rules page (/water/rules/) and hubs summarize them: Ley 430-2000 (licenses, ages, life jackets, alcohol, speed, jet skis, swimmers, buoys), kayaks, paddleboards and kites, registration and numbering, CBP reporting on arrival, protected areas (manatee zones, reserves, Mona), DRNA moorings, the coral law's fines and spearfishing. Give a topic in plain words ('alcohol', 'jet ski rental age', 'customs arriving from St Thomas', 'spearfishing with scuba'); returns the best-matching rules with their text, their citation with each article linked to the law's own text, the page row, sources and the day checked. No topic: the index of every rule. A summary, not legal advice: cite the citation links and the url.

What FEMA's flood zones mean in Puerto Rico (A/AE and V/VE high risk, shaded X moderate, X minimal; the Planning Board's post-María advisory map) and the link to 787daily's flood-zone lookup opened on a town, where the reader types an address or taps a spot to see FEMA's zone, the panel and its date, and the advisory zone. This tool takes a TOWN, never an address: an address is checked by the reader on the page and is not sent here. Cite 787daily.com/flood-zone/, FEMA and the Puerto Rico Planning Board.

The address of 787daily's day-by-day trip plan for a Puerto Rico town: places from 787daily's guide arranged by day, with the forecast and events for those dates when a start date is given. Gives the URL to open; it does not return the plan itself. Validated: town is one of the 78; days 1 to 5; interest one of surf, diving, beaches, food-and-nightlife, outdoors-and-culture (omit for the town's own best fit); start a future date (YYYY-MM-DD, Puerto Rico time, up to 18 months ahead). Cite 787daily.com/plan/.

The wind and swell on Puerto Rico's coast right now, as 787daily's On the Water section shows them (/conditions/): each CariCOOS shore station's and NOAA buoy's latest wind (knots, gusts, the direction it blows from) and each buoy's waves (feet, period, direction), every row with its age and stale past an hour (a stale row has no numbers: not read is not calm), and, for a region (north, east, south, southwest, west), the NWS coastal waters forecast's next period for its marine zone. Station readings, not conditions at a beach. For the call at a surf, dive or kite spot use get_conditions; for spots that suit a wind, find_wind_spots; for breaks that suit a swell, find_surf_breaks. Cite 787daily.com/conditions/, CariCOOS, NOAA NDBC and the NWS.

The National Hurricane Center's chance of tropical-storm-force (39 mph+) and hurricane-force (74 mph+) winds within 5 days for Puerto Rico's towns, from NHC's latest advisory, while a storm is in play: the island's lead line ('42 of Puerto Rico's 78 towns have a 10% or better chance…') and, with `town`, that town's sentence and figures. `active: false` means no storm is in play and NHC has no odds for Puerto Rico — say so, never imply a threat. A chance, never a forecast that winds will come. Cite 787daily.com/hurricane/ and the National Hurricane Center with the advisory time returned.

Puerto Rico's anchorages (Culebra, Vieques, La Cordillera, the east, south and west coasts, San Juan, Mona) as 787daily's sailing hub lists them from NOAA's Coast Pilot and the cruising guides: depth, protection, moorings, hazards and reserve rules. Give windFrom (N, NE, E, SE, S, W, NW; NW reads as the file's west, 'a west or northwest wind') to get the anchorages a source calls sheltered from that wind, with the ones it calls exposed, the ones to avoid (ordnance, foul ground, a reserve) and the ones no source rates for it, by name. hurricaneHarbor: NOAA's hurricane harbors. The restricted zones (unexploded ordnance, no-anchoring areas) always come back. Cite the anchorage's url.

Puerto Rico's dive sites as 787daily's diving hub lists them (/water/diving/), from the shops, dive logs and agencies: depth in feet and metres, shore or boat entry, the certification a source names, walls, reefs, wrecks and caverns, current, visibility, hazards, the reserve a site lies in and its rules, and the shops that dive it (with their standing). Filter by region (north, northwest, west, desecheo, mona, southwest, south, east, culebra, vieques, or a town), maxDepthFt (sites whose published maximum is within it), level (the diver's card: dsd, ow, advanced, tech; dsd = no card), entry, reserve or feature. Sites that pass the other filters but publish no depth or name no level come back by name in depthNotPublished / levelNotStated. Never present a depth or a level as a guarantee; cite the site's url.

Puerto Rico's marinas, yacht clubs, boatyards and landings as 787daily's sailing hub lists them (/water/sailing/marinas/): each place's specs as its operator, NOAA's Coast Pilot or a listing publishes them (slips, max length, depth, fuel, pump-out, haul-out, repairs, transient berths, power, water, VHF, phone, hurricane notes, the nearest CBP site), with sources and the day they were checked. Use it to find a berth, fuel or a haul-out by area, or a place deep enough for a draft. A spec a place does not publish is absent, never assumed; with minDraftFt, places that publish no depth come back in depthNotPublished, and draftFit 'check' means part of the published range is shallower. Cite the marina's url.

Kayak and paddleboard places in Puerto Rico as 787daily's paddle hub lists them (/water/paddle/): the three bioluminescent bays, mangroves, city lagoons and open coast, each with the craft, how it is paddled (guided tour, flat water, rentals on shore, bring your own, calm days only: no source rates difficulty), the conditions and the outfitters that run it (with their standing). Filter by type, craft, level or town. Cite the place's url.

Puerto Rico's surf breaks as 787daily's surf hub lists them (/water/surf/), from Surfline, surf-forecast.com, the Surf Atlas, the agencies and the law: the break type (reef, point, beach), the wave (left, right), the swell directions a source says work, size, tide, wind, season, the level, hazards, the Tres Palmas reserve and the schools (with their standing). Filter by region (west, northwest, north, san-juan, east, south, or a town such as 'Rincón', 'Isabela'), level, type and swellFrom (a 16-point compass direction, e.g. 'NNW', or a broad swell: north, northwest, northeast, south); breaks naming no swell come back by name in swellNotNamed, breaks no source rates in levelNotGiven. For a break's call today use get_conditions; for the buoys' swell now, water_conditions_now. Never present a level or size as a guarantee; cite the break's url.

Puerto Rico's kite, wing and windsurf spots as 787daily's wind hub lists them (/water/wind/): the sports, the wind directions a source says work, the water (flat, chop, waves), the level, the launch, hazards, local rules, the schools, the nearest measuring station and the NWS marine zone. Filter by sport, level, water, region and windFrom (a 16-point compass direction, e.g. 'ENE': spots a source names that wind for; spots with no direction named come back by name in windNotNamed). Also returns the rules that apply everywhere and whether any kite law exists. For the wind blowing now, use water_conditions_now. Cite the spot's url.

The FAA's national airspace status for Puerto Rico's airports (San Juan SJU, Aguadilla BQN, Ponce PSE) and the mainland gateways with the most San Juan flights (Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, New York JFK, Newark, Philadelphia, Atlanta): ground stops, ground delay programs, general arrival and departure delays and closures, with reader lines like 'SJU: no FAA delay programs as of 6:10 PM AST'. IMPORTANT: an airport with no FAA program is NOT 'on time' — airline delays (a late inbound plane, a crew) are never in this feed; for a flight's own status point to the airline or the flight board URL returned. `lines` is null when the FAA was not read in the last half hour. Cite 787daily.com/live/.

Puerto Rico beach water quality: which beaches are under a no-swimming advisory, and the latest Enterococcus bacteria count at each of the ~49 beaches the island monitors under the federal BEACH Act. Returns the beaches named in DRNA's current notice with their town and the days the water was sampled, every station's latest count with its sample date and a verdict, how often each beach has been flagged across the notices on record, and the separate volunteer-lab samples (Surfrider Rincón, Arrecifes Pro Ciudad). IMPORTANT — the verdict vocabulary is exactly three states and NEVER the word 'safe': 'advisory' (not suitable for swimming), 'within' (the count was at or under the 70 colonies/100 mL Beach Action Value), and 'stale' (no sample in 21 days — the source's own latest value for a station can be YEARS old, so it is not a verdict either way; check verdict.sampledOn before believing any number). Only DRNA's notice can place a beach under advisory (verdict.basis 'notice'); a count above 70 that no notice covers is reported as verdict.basis 'reading'. Results are published days after sampling and water changes with rain and tide, so never state or imply that a beach is currently safe to swim — report the number, the date, and the advisory state. Cite 787daily.com/live/beaches/.

Return 787daily articles that mention a specific named entity (person, organization, or place), newest first. Match is on the entity's full canonical name; case and accents are ignored ('jenniffer gonzalez' finds Jenniffer González). A short name that finds little suggests the fuller names in didYouMean ('LUMA' suggests 'LUMA Energy'). Returns { name, count (every match), returned, articles[] (at most limit, default 20), didYouMean? }.

Return 787daily articles that mention a specific Puerto Rico town, newest first. Accepts canonical names and common variants (e.g. 'San Juan', 'Ponce', 'Rincón'). Returns { name, count (every match), returned, articles[] (at most limit, default 20), moreAt (the town's page) }, plus a note when nothing matched.

Conditions at a Puerto Rico surf, dive or kite spot, as 787daily's /conditions/ page shows them: its call for each activity, wave height (ft), period (s), wind (kt) and water temperature (°F) from NOAA buoys or the marine forecast. Every time is UTC (Z). Use list_condition_spots for valid keys.

Puerto Rico cost-of-living figures from the U.S. Census ACS 5-Year Estimates: median gross rent, median household income, and median home value for the island, the US (comparison), and any of the 78 towns. Vintage-labeled; suppressed small-town estimates are null.

Today's Morning Brief from 787daily: the day's top Puerto Rico stories as the brief curates them, in its order, each with its one-line takeaway. Each story's url is 787daily's summary page; sourceUrl is the outlet's original report, most of them in Spanish (null for 787daily's own pieces). moreAt is the brief itself. Returns summaries + links only; for the newest stories as they publish, use keyword_search_news with no query.

Upcoming events in Puerto Rico as 787daily's /events/ page lists them: concerts, festivals, theater, sports, food and outdoor events announced in the island's press, and every town's patron-saint feast day (fiestas patronales). Filter by dates (an event counts when any of its days falls inside), town (accents optional) or category. Each event links its page, a calendar file and the story it came from. Dates are Puerto Rico calendar days; cite 787daily.com/events/.

Puerto Rico's ferries right now: the Ceiba–Vieques and Ceiba–Culebra boats (the only way on and off those two islands) and the San Juan–Cataño shuttle. Returns each route's published sailings for today with a posted status (scheduled / cancelled / retimed to <time> / notice posted / past), the next departure each way with how far off it is and when check-in closes, a route state word (On schedule / Changes posted / Suspended), a 30-day record of how many boats were scheduled and how many the operator cancelled or retimed, and the operator's notices in Spanish with an English translation. IMPORTANT: there is no public live vessel tracker for these routes, so nothing here reports a boat actually departing or running late — every status is what Puerto Rico Ferry has PUBLISHED, and the record counts posted changes, not observed lateness. Cite 787daily.com/live/ferry/.

Puerto Rico pump prices: DACO's reference range for regular, premium and diesel in US dollars per gallon, the newest report and the ones before it, each with the outlet that reported it. A range DACO publishes, not a station's price. Cite 787daily.com/cost-of-living/#gas and DACO.

787daily's glossary of Puerto Rico Spanish for English readers: the weather service's alert words (aviso = warning, advertencia = advisory, vigilancia = watch — a translation often swaps them), AAA's reservoir bands (seguridad, observación, ajustes, control), the agencies' and public bodies' Spanish names and initials (CRIM, DACO, AAA, AEE …) and civic words (patente, IVU, municipio). Each term with the English the site uses for it, a one-line definition and its link. `term` finds one by its Spanish, its initials or its English, accents optional; `group` lists a section; neither lists all (about 70). Cite 787daily.com/learn/glossary/.

Puerto Rico government contracts of $100,000 or more on file with the Comptroller's contract registry (Oficina del Contralor, Registro de Contratos), from 787daily's Contract Watch tracker, read weekly: the fiscal year so far (July to June) against a year earlier, every fiscal year since 2017, the year's largest agencies and contractors (private firms and organizations; the top ten's share), the fund split (federal, state, the agency's own revenue, combined), service groups, the contracts newly on file this week and the largest amendments to contracts of $1 million or more. `agency` gives one agency's largest contracts (e.g. 'PREPA', 'AAA'); `contractor` one contractor's. Every amount is the contract's whole value over its term, as filed: never characterize a contract. Cite 787daily.com/contracts/ and the Comptroller's registry.

How reliable Puerto Rico's grid has been over the years, from the performance data LUMA Energy and Genera PR file with the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau: SAIDI (average minutes without power a year) and SAIFI by fiscal year, the latest year by the 16 reliability districts LUMA reports to the Energy Bureau (not the 7 outage-map regions of get_power_status), and the latest monthly CAIDI. Filings are quarterly and revised; for outages right now use get_power_status. Cite 787daily.com/live/power/ and the Energy Bureau.

The newest edition of 787daily's automated analysis desks — first-party series computed from public data with the prose grounded against the same facts: Daily Water Watch (daily), Water Week in Review (Sundays), Drought Watch (in the Daily Water Watch, each new map week), Where to Swim (each new DRNA beach notice, or Thursday when there is none), Grid Watch (Mondays), Utility Watch (when new filings land, about quarterly), Quake Watch (within the hour of an earthquake that rings the bell), Tropics Watch (Wednesdays, June–November), Safety Watch (monthly, on the PRPD statistics snapshot), Town of the Week (Tuesdays), Fiesta Calendar (monthly), Weekend Watch (Fridays), Boricua Week (Mondays in season), The Week in Puerto Rico (Sundays), The Month in Puerto Rico (the 1st of each month), Legislature Week (Fridays), Contract Watch (Wednesdays), Recovery Watch (Wednesdays), Act 60 Watch (each new DDEC report). Returns each desk's cadence, description, source data and hub plus its latest edition (title, url, date, takeaways) and recent editions. Cite the edition URL and 787daily.com.

The bills 787daily tracks in Puerto Rico's House and Senate, in the order its legislature tracker ranks them: English title and summary where there is one, the stage in the process, the last and next step, sponsors and a link to the original filing (in Spanish). Optionally match words in the number, title or summary. Cite 787daily.com/live/legislature/.

Puerto Rico's electricity grid right now, from LUMA Energy's public outage portal: how many of the island's ~1.47 million customers are without service, as a count and a share, with LUMA's PLANNED work broken out separately so the unplanned share is readable on its own; a severity word; the seven LUMA regions each with their own count and share; the worst region; and how many towns are affected. Optionally the daily history (one ~06:00 AST reading per day) behind the weekly Grid Watch. IMPORTANT: these are LUMA's own published figures at the moment of reading, not an independent measurement, and a missing day in the history, or a day with null counts and a countsReason, is a failed read, never a zero; countsRead=false on the live reading means LUMA's count could not be read and its counts are null. Cite 787daily.com/live/power/ and LUMA Energy.

Puerto Rico's official holidays (the government's OATRH list plus federal observed dates from OPM) and what closes on each: Puerto Rico government offices and public schools, federal offices and post offices, banks, stores. Answers 'is today a holiday', 'what's the next holiday' and 'what's closed Monday'. Dates are Puerto Rico time; cite 787daily.com/holidays/ and the sources it returns.

Earthquakes near Puerto Rico (within 250 km of the island's centre) in the last hours, newest first, from the U.S. Geological Survey's magnitude 2.5+ feed: magnitude, place, time (UTC), depth, distance from the island's centre and its coast, felt reports, estimated intensity, and `alert` — why 787daily's alert rule rings for it (magnitude 4.5+ within 150 km, 4.0+ within 50 km of the coast, or a USGS damage or intensity flag) — or null for a quake too small or far to alert. read=false means USGS did not answer, never an all-quiet. Most quakes here are small and harmless; never call one dangerous unless `alert` says so. Cite the USGS event page returned and 787daily.com/live/.

Where FEMA's Public Assistance (rebuilding) money for Puerto Rico has been committed, from 787daily's Recovery Money Tracker, read weekly from FEMA's OpenFEMA data: the island total since 2001, FEMA's categories (utilities, public buildings, roads and bridges …), each disaster, the island-wide agencies (PREPA, AAA, Education …), the projects newly obligated since the last weekly read and every town's total and money per resident. `town` gives one town's largest projects and rank; `agency` one island-wide applicant. The money is OBLIGATED (committed to approved projects), not spent: say so. `paidOut` is what COR3, Puerto Rico's recovery office, has actually paid out, from its transparency portal: with no argument island-wide, by disaster, by agency and by quarter; with `town` or `agency`, that one's figures and largest projects. Each carries its own committedUsd and pctPaid: state a % only from those (FEMA's obligatedUsd is a different list). A town's FEMA total is the projects filed under it; island-wide agencies' projects are in no town. `treasuryOutlays` is a partial cross-check; `housingGrantsHud` HUD's separate housing grants. Cite 787daily.com/recovery/, FEMA and COR3.

Daily history of AAA reservoir levels (metres above each reservoir's datum) for one or all 19 reservoirs, newest first, with the alert-band thresholds — from 787daily's validated reading of AAA's daily chart (since 2026-08-07). Use for trends, day-over-day change and band crossings; cite 787daily.com and AAA.

Road closures in Puerto Rico standing now, as reported in the public stories 787daily published (an outlet, the Police, the Highway Authority or Metropistas through them): `current` is in force now, `planned` is announced ahead. Each row gives the road ('PR-52 (Luis A. Ferré)'), the town, the status (Closed, Partly closed, Lane closed), why, the timing, and whose report and when, linking its row on 787daily.com/live/roads/. Filter by `town` (one of the 78, accents optional; a community such as Levittown finds its town) and/or `road` ('PR-52', '52'). An empty list means none reported, which is not proof a road is clear. This is the NEWS lane only: live traffic incidents (crashes reported by a traffic feed as they happen) are shown on 787daily.com/live/roads/ and are not available through this tool. Cite 787daily.com/live/roads/ and the reporting outlet.

Puerto Rico reported crime statistics (PRPD Type I via the Instituto de Estadísticas): island year-to-date totals vs the same period last year, monthly homicide series, victim demographics, and per-town counts with violent-crime rates per 10k residents (prior full year). Reported incidents, not victimization surveys.

The 'Living in <town>' profile for any of Puerto Rico's 78 towns — housing (median rent, home value, household and per-capita income, ownership, vacancy, poverty, typical build year), work (mean commute, remote-work and transit shares, unemployment, broadband), people (population, density, median age, degrees), mapped services (schools, supermarkets, parks, restaurants, bus stops, beaches per 10,000 residents), the town's AAA water-rationing zones and plan state, and the reported violent-crime rate. Every figure carries the median town's value (`median`: the middle of the 78 towns' own figures, not the Puerto Rico-wide one) and the town's rank among the towns that report it, with sources and vintages (Census ACS 5-Year, OpenStreetMap, PRPD, AAA). Omit `town` for a compact index of all 78.

Current conditions plus a 24-hour hourly forecast AND a 7-day daily outlook for any of Puerto Rico's 78 towns, by name or slug (e.g. 'San Juan', 'ponce', 'Río Grande'; accents optional). Hourly temperature (°F), wind (mph + direction) and conditions; daily high/low, rain chance and amount, peak wind, UV, sunrise/sunset — from Open-Meteo via 787daily's cached endpoint.

Today's hiking call for Puerto Rico's trails, as 787daily's /hike/ shows it: for El Yunque National Forest or the trails around the island, the area's call and each trail's (good, fair, poor or closed) for the next days (three days for the whole area; one trail adds the readings behind its call), from USGS rain gauges, National Weather Service alerts and the forecast. A reading of public data, not a safety guarantee; trail closures are the managing agency's. Cite 787daily.com/hike/.

Active Atlantic tropical systems and the National Hurricane Center's 7-day outlook, as 787daily's hurricane hub judges them: each storm's strength, position, movement and distance from San Juan, and whether it is of concern for Puerto Rico (a tropical alert for the island, or not moving away and within 1,500 miles) or why not; each outlook area's 48-hour and 7-day formation chance. read=false means NHC did not answer, never an all-clear. Cite 787daily.com/hurricane/ and the National Hurricane Center.

Puerto Rico's water situation right now: every AAA rotation plan in force (metro and local, each with its status active/paused/ended, which zone has water and until when) in `plans`, mayor-announced local rationing in `local`, the metro plan's own detail in `rationing` (next scheduled switch, published calendar), today's 5 AM levels for the 19 AAA-monitored reservoirs with their alert bands and our trend/pace analysis, and the utility's latest notices from @AcueductosPR (translated). Daily data no other source publishes as numbers; cite 787daily.com and AAA.

Keyword search over 787daily's Puerto Rico news archive by title/summary and optional section (Act 60 stories count as business). Accents are optional: 'mayaguez' finds Mayagüez. Returns news only (no guide listings), newest first, each with a link to 787daily's summary page, which credits and links the outlet's original report; 787daily's own desk pieces, running-story timelines and feature stories (/features/) are in it too. For semantic/vector search, use search_news.

List every 787daily Puerto Rico adventure spot with its activities and the CURRENT activity-window verdict (good/fair/marginal/poor, scored from buoy + marine data at the site's last build). Use a spot's key with get_conditions for live numbers.

List 787daily's news sections (categories) and what each covers.

Semantic vector search over 787daily's Puerto Rico news corpus. Returns the most relevant article matches (title, URL, topic, date, score, and for a story the outlet that reported it: source, sourceUrl) for a free-text query — without generating an answer. Use this when you want matching articles rather than a synthesized answer. Every url is absolute. Limited to 30 calls a minute per client (the site's own limit); keyword_search_news has no such cap. (Written answers for people are at https://787daily.com/ask; there is no answer tool here.)

Legacy alias for keyword_search_news. Keyword search over title/summary and optional section; use search_news for semantic/vector search.