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Candela Radio streams classic cumbia, grupera and tropical music from Mexico, built around a genre that migrated from Colombia in the 1940s and became a Mexican staple. Listen free on Radio Shuffle.
La Mega 97.9 (WSKQ) streams salsa, merengue, bachata and reggaeton free on Radio Shuffle from New York, the Spanish-language station that beat Howard Stern's morning show in 1998 and became the city's top station regardless of language by 2014.
Z92 streams salsa and tropical music from Miami, the Spanish Broadcasting System station relaunched in 2012 with Willy Chirino and now the city's top Hispanic outlet. Listen free on Radio Shuffle.
Radio Chacaltaya streams cumbia and tropical music from La Paz, named after a Bolivian peak that once held the world's highest ski resort. Listen free on Radio Shuffle.
Salsa 92.7 FM broadcasts an all-salsa format from Santiago de los Caballeros, the historic heart of the Dominican Republic's Cibao region, with dedicated shows like Salsa En La Mañana and Domingo De Salsa.
Broadcasting from Barahona since 1989, Palma 90.7 FM keeps the Dominican south dancing with classic salsa and merengue, community talk shows, and a schedule built around the rhythm of daily life.
La Grande de Río Grande in Zacatecas began as a 1962 concession in a different town, Concepción del Oro, and only adopted its current name and FM frequency after decades of moves in frequency, power, and ownership.
Technolovers Afro House streams the warm, percussive side of afro house through Germany's RauteMusik network, tracking a genre that grew out of 1990s Soweto into one of dance music's biggest global exports.
Radio Canela Morona Santiago plays chicha and cumbia from Macas, Ecuador, a historic Amazon gateway city known as the Emerald of the East, broadcasting a genre that itself was born in the Peruvian Amazon in the 1960s.
Radio la Sureña streams tropical cumbia ranchera around the clock from Carahue, a small town in Chile's Araucanía region, the same corner of the country where the genre itself was born in the early 2000s.
Espectaculo 100.7 FM streams salsa and merengue from Villa Bruzual, a Venezuelan farm town in the heart of joropo llanero country, as part of the seven-station Circuito Radial RMT network.
WPAT-FM's Amor 93.1 broadcasts tropical and Spanish adult contemporary music today, but its 93.1 MHz frequency once belonged to Edwin Armstrong's own experimental station, the one he used to prove his invention of FM radio worked.
