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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.
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).
In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the combined population of Borinquen barrio and Bairoa barrio was 3,870. [20] According to the 2010 United States Census the population of Bairoa is of 19,258 residents, and the barrio today is primarily suburban and residential.
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.
Beatriz is located in the Sierra de Cayey, a subrange of the Cordillera Central mountain range, making it one of the barrios of Caguas which are not located in the Caguas Valley. The name of the barrio comes from the Doña Beatriz Creek which crosses it and flows into the Turabo River .
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 following is a list of mayors of the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico. [1] List of mayors. History of Puerto Rico; By year; Spanish rule, 1493–1898;
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.