Memoria Colonial

Founded in 2020, Memoria Colonial is a non-profit organisation based in San Juan, Puerto Rico working on heritage, education, community development.

Memoria Colonial is a non-profit educational project based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that critically examines colonial legacies in the island's cultural heritage and public memory. Founded in 2020 by Dr. Rafael V. Capó García as a decolonial digital humanities initiative mapping commemorative sites and monuments, it now runs public humanities initiatives, including the vío public history project, the Desvíos guided tours for public school students, and the El Manglar laboratory for public memory projects. The organisation also collaborates with community organisations in La Perla and Vieques on their own public memory initiatives. It publishes an online archive and interactive map of colonial monuments and accepts public submissions of colonial commemorations. The organisation is described on its site as a non-profit operating under a 501 designation, and it is also referred to as Memoria Decolonial.