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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 (Spanish pronunciation:, locally) is a city and municipality in central eastern Puerto Rico.Located in the eponymous Caguas Valley between the Sierra de Cayey and Sierra de Luquillo of the Central Mountain Range, it is bordered by San Juan and Trujillo Alto to the north, Gurabo and San Lorenzo to the west, Aguas Buenas, Cidra and Cayey to the east, and Patillas to the south.
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]
The Caguas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Caguas), or the Caguas-Juncos Valley, [1] and popularly referred to as the Turabo Valley (Valle del Turabo), is a large valley lying between two mountain subranges of the Cordillera Central, Sierra de Cayey and Sierra de Luquillo, in the eastern region of the main island of Puerto Rico. [2]
The San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area, most commonly known as the San Juan metropolitan area (Spanish: área metropolitana de San Juan), is the largest and most populous metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in Puerto Rico, concentrated in the capital municipality of San Juan and surrounding municipalities, including Bayamón, Caguas, and Carolina, on the northeastern coastal plain ...
The Central Aguirre Historic District, in Aguirre, Salinas, Puerto Rico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] Following the acquisition of Puerto Rico by the U.S. government in 1898, as a colonial consequence of the Spanish–American War, the town was originally built as a company town by Ford & Co. (no relation to the automobile manufacturer), an American ...
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]
Paseo Gautier Benítez, colloquially known as Paseo Gautier, is a pedestrian street and shopping district located in Caguas Pueblo (downtown Caguas) in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico. The street is named after José Gautier Benítez, a poet from the Romantic Era who was born in Caguas in 1851. [1]