{"id":206669,"date":"2026-03-26T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:41:07","slug":"florida-puerto-rican-parade-2026-in-orlando-marks-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206669\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Puerto Rican Parade 2026 in Orlando Marks 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The 2026 Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival is exactly one month away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">This year marks the 10th anniversary of celebrating Puerto Rican culture in downtown Orlando. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The theme for the 2026 event is \u201cBuilding the future in Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">All the festivities for the 2026 event will be dedicated to the town of Yabucoa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Yabucoa is known for its beautiful beaches and historic sugar industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Ralph Morales, the Florida Puerto Rican Parade chairperson, said the event has a purpose beyond the celebration. \u201cThe parade is not just a parade where you go march and viva pr, you soy boricua&#8230;the parade has a symbolic impact which is to bring attention to our community,\u201d Morales said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Parade organizers stated they want to highlight economic opportunities on the island through the event. The goal is to inspire entrepreneurs to invest in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774518067_927_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The 2026 Florida Puerto Rican Parade and Festival is exactly one month away. This year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1060,2646,634,115,139,141,140,8365,94765,1045,94766],"class_list":["post-206669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-channel_9","tag-downtown_orlando","tag-local","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-puerto_rico","tag-rican_parade","tag-video","tag-yabocoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}