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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.
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).
Caguas Pueblo, which is the historic and administrative center of the municipality. The museum consists of five exhibitions each dedicated to either a historical era or a particular aspect of the Puerto Rican and local Criollo identity and history . [ 1 ]
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 (Spanish: Pueblo de Caguas), officially designated as Caguas Barrio-pueblo and popularly referred to as Downtown Caguas in English, is located in the middle plains of the Caguas Valley. It is bordered by the Cagüitas River to the north, the Loíza River to the east and the Turabo River to the south. [11]
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.
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July 19, 1995 (Highway 9959, km 3, spanning Río Canóvanas: Canóvanas Pueblo and Canóvanas: Built in 1892 on the 19th century highway between Río Piedras and Río Grande, this iron and masonry bridge is the best preserved example of an Eiffel pony truss bridge in Puerto Rico or the United States.