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Caguax was a Taíno cacique who lived on the island of Borinquén (the Taíno name for Puerto Rico) before and during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.The name of his yucayeque, or Taino village, was Turabo; it comprised the Caguas Valley and surrounding mountains. [1]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Caguas is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
The following sectors are in Beatriz: Alturas de Beatriz, Alturas de Caguas (Beatriz), Barrio Beatriz, Colinas de Villa Coquí, La Jurado, Las Abejas, Los Ortíz, Los Panes, Muñoz Grillo, Piñas I, Piñas II, Piñas III, and Villa Paolo. [11] According to the 2010 Census, there were 4,353 people residing in Beatriz.
The first European settlement in the area was the Hato de Bairoa, a cattle farm established and developed between the years 1525 and 1600. The first mention of Bairoa as a district of Caguas comes from the colonial municipal budget documents of 1821 as Bairoa Abajo and Bairoa Arriba (modern day Bairoa, Aguas Buenas).
Caguas Pueblo is a barrio and downtown area that serves the administrative center of the city and municipality of Caguas, a municipality of Puerto Rico. It is bordered by the Cagüitas River to the north and located two miles southwest of the Río Grande de Loíza. Its population in 2020 was 19,020. [4] [5] [6] [7]
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 24 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico is along the central mountain region, from Las Marías and Maricao in the central-west to Juncos in the central-east, including the slopes of the Cordillera.
Borinquen is a barrio in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2020 was 7,251. Its population in 2020 was 7,251. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The barrio is named after the indigenous Taíno name for Puerto Rico, "Borinquen," which highlights the area's historical significance.