Birth of the New World, Bronze sculpture in Arecibo, United States.

Birth of the New World is a bronze sculpture in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, depicting a man standing on the prow of a ship and reaching a total height of about 360 feet (110 meters). The entire figure is made of thousands of individual bronze panels mounted on a steel framework that gives the structure its enormous weight.

The sculpture was completed in 2016 to mark the first voyage of European sailors to this region more than five centuries earlier. The artist searched for a suitable site for years before the coast of Arecibo was finally chosen as the permanent location.

The nickname la estatua de Colón sticks to a figure shown gripping a ship's wheel, a device that did not replace tillers until more than 250 years after Columbus's first voyage. Taíno groups, among them the Movimiento Indígena Jíbaro Boricua, protested the assembly in 2014. A smaller companion piece, The Birth of a New Man, was dedicated in Seville in 1995.

The sculpture stands in the Islote barrio on Arecibo's Atlantic coast, at coordinates 18.49010, -66.62670. Access is by road; the planned visitor centre, car park and plaza tied to the Terravista ParkLand project were halted after Hurricane María in September 2017, so facilities around the base are limited. The monument itself withstood the storm without structural damage.

The monument is made of 2,750 bronze and steel pieces and weighs more than 1,300,000 pounds (about 590 tonnes). It survived Category 4 Hurricane Maria in September 2017 without structural damage, though the adjacent beach house and planned access roads, parking and plaza were left unfinished.