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Both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are served from the sectional center facility (SCF) of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [1] ZIP codes in the 006xx range are used in northwestern Puerto Rico; 007xx in southeast Puerto Rico; and 009xx in the San Juan Metropolitan Area. As in the rest of the United States, the fourth and fifth digits designate ...
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.
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 building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Alcaldia de Caguas in March 22, 1989. [3] This building hosted municipal offices until 2010 when the new city hall building was inaugurated. The building now houses several cultural institutions including a museum dedicated to the history of Caguas. [4]
This area today comprises the modern municipalities of Caguas, Aguas Buenas, Gurabo, and portions of San Lorenzo, Juncos and Las Piedras in east-central Puerto Rico. [2] Guaybanex Caguax was an early convert to the Catholic faith; he adopted the Spanish name Francisco at the time of his baptism.
Tomás de Castro was named after Tomás de Castro del Valenciano, a military man. [6] [7][name] was in Spain's gazetteers [8] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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