Official name | Caguas, Puerto Rico |
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Native name lang | |
Settlement type | Municipality |
Image shield | Caguas seal.gif |
Nickname | "La Ciudad del Turabo" (Turabo Valley), "La Ciudad Criolla" (Creole City) |
Anthem | "Caguas" |
Map caption | Location of Caguas in Puerto Rico |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Coordinates region | US-PR |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | United States |
Subdivision type1 | Territory |
Subdivision name1 | Puerto Rico |
Established title | Founded |
Established date | January 1, 1775 |
Leader party | PPD |
Leader title | Mayor |
Leader name | William Miranda Torres |
Leader title1 | Senatorial dist. |
Leader name1 | 7 |
Leader title2 | Representative dist. |
Leader name2 | 31,32 |
Area magnitude | 1 E9 |
Area total km2 | 153.00 |
Area land km2 | 151.97 |
Area water km2 | 1.03 |
Elevation m | 643 |
Population total | 140502 |
Population as of | 2004 |
Population density km2 | auto |
Population demonym | Cagüeños |
Demographics type1 | Ethnicity |
Demographics1 footnotes | (2000 Census) |
Demographics1 title1 | White |
Demographics1 info1 | 84.5% |
Demographics1 title2 | Black |
Demographics1 info2 | 0.3% |
Demographics1 title3 | American Indian/AN |
Demographics1 info3 | 0.1% |
Demographics1 title4 | Asian |
Demographics1 info4 | 0.0% |
Demographics1 title5 | Native Hawaiian/PI |
Demographics1 info5 | 6.2% |
Timezone1 | AST |
Utc offset1 | -4 |
Website | caguas.gov.pr |
Caguas is located (twenty minutes to an hour by car) from San Juan and (an hour and a half by car) from Ponce. It is known as El Valle del Turabo (Turabo Valley) or La Ciudad Criolla (The Creole City) and its name originates from the Taíno cacique Caguax. Caguas is both a principal city of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area and the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area.
Arrows were used as a remembrance of the first Christian place of worship established in the region which was dedicated under the patronage of St. Sebastian. There are pineapples interspersed to reflect the native agriculture. A castellated wall surmounts the shield to show the city's having been granted status as a municipality by the Spanish Crown.
On the flag, the shield sits atop another blue field on which the cross of arrows is repeated.
During 2006, Miranda Marin began calling Caguas "El Nuevo Pais de Caguas" ("The New Country of Caguas").
A "light interurban rail" system connecting Caguas to San Juan is in the planning stages, it will act as a feeder for the Tren Urbano.
Caguas is served by one freeway, one tolled expressway and one main divided highway. Puerto Rico Highway 30 connects Caguas to the east. There is no freeway/expressway to the west, due mainly to the fact that there is no sufficient population west of Caguas to develop a new freeway or expressway; good access to the municipalities of Cidra(southwest) and Aguas Buenas(northwest) are possible via PR-172 and PR-156, respectively. Puerto Rico Highway 52 connects Caguas to the north (San Juan) and south (Cayey, Ponce). Puerto Rico Highway 1 is an alternate route to San Juan and Guaynabo with two lanes per direction; in south Caguas it becomes rural near Borinquen, therefore the only good access to Cayey is the expressway (PR-52) and a $1.00 toll has to be paid (only in the south direction). The only municipality bordering Caguas with a poor-access road is San Lorenzo, via PR-183; but good access to San Lorenzo is possible entering Gurabo first via PR-30 and then taking PR-203 south.
The Criollos de Caguas basketball team, founded in 1968 by Dr. Héctor "Tato" Dávila and Lcdo. Libertario Pérez Rodríguez, hasn't enjoyed as much success as their baseball counterparts, but in the early 2000s, they showed a lot of progress by reaching the national playoffs various times. The team is a member of the BSN. In 2006, the team won its first BSN national basketball championship, defeating Flor Melendez and his Santurce Crabbers in five games.
Caguas is home to the Bairoa Gym, one of the most important boxing gyms in all Puerto Rico and a place where many visiting champions have trained at; such as boxing Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto, his brother Jose Miguel, Alberto Mercado, Juan Carazo, Alfredo Escalera and others.
The Criollas de Caguas women's volleyball team has won 7 national Puerto Rico titles and has made it to the finals more than 15 times. The team is a member of the Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino (LVSF).
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