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Caguas, Puerto Rico

Administration
Full nameCaguas, Puerto Rico
Official nameCaguas, Puerto Rico
Settlement typeMunicipality
Anthem"Caguas"
CountryUnited States
TerritoryPuerto Rico
FoundedJanuary 1, 1775
Government
MayorWilliam Miranda Torres
Senatorial dist.7
Representative dist.3132
Geography
Total Area59.1 sq mi (153.00 km2)
Land Area58.7 sq mi (151.97 km2)
Water Area0.4 sq mi (1.03 km2)
Elevation2109.6 ft (643 m)
Demography
Total Population140502 (2004)
Density (pop.)auto/km2 (0/sq mi)
DemonymCagüeños
Ethnicity
White84.5%
Black0.3%
American Indian/AN0.1%
Asian0.0%
Native Hawaiian/PI6.2%
Other information
Time zoneAST (UTC-4)

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Caguas (-esˈkaɣwas), founded in 1775, is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey.

Caguas is located 20 mi (32.2 km) (twenty minutes to an hour by car) from San Juan and 40 mi (64.4 km) (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.

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Ponte Verde con bicicletada familiar “Pedalea por el ambiente” en Caguas - Primera Hora Tweet this news
Primera Hora---...- excusas que no convencen en caso del apagón... El paso del huracán Earl a 140 millas de distancia de -Puerto Rico- puso de manifiesto la precaria infraes...--- - Date : Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:40:27 GMT+00:00
PATHEON REPORTS THIRD QUARTER FISCAL 2010 RESULTS - MarketWatch (press release) Tweet this news
MarketWatch (press release)--"The Company's operating performance improvement is due in part to reduced losses at our -Puerto Rico- operations, which had experienced significant ... - Date : Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:06:36 GMT+00:00
Taiwan enters final four in Bronco world series - Focus Taiwan News Channel Tweet this news
Focus Taiwan News Channel--The other two teams to reach the final four are Ewa Beach Hawaii and -Caguas- from -Puerto Rico-. Taiwan's youth baseball has been doing well this summer in ... - Date : Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:02:23 GMT+00:00
Lopez-Marquez title bout rescheduled for Nov. 6 - USA Today Tweet this news
USA Today--Lopez (29-0, 26 KOs), from -Caguas-, -Puerto Rico-, is a rising star and one of the world's top pound-for-pound fighters, but his bout against Marquez will be ... - Date : Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:02:37 GMT+00:00
Close Bronco World Series game dissolves as Caguas, Puerto Rico beats Salinas ... - The Salinas Californian Tweet this news
The Salinas Californian--Fortunately for -Caguas-, -Puerto Rico-, the bottom of that inning did count, and on a gloomy Friday evening at Jack's Park in Monterey, they walked away with a ... - Date : Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:17:05 GMT+00:00
CHATTER: Burbank reaches final at softball regional - Los Angeles Daily News Tweet this news
Los Angeles Daily News---Caguas-, -Puerto Rico- was seeking a repeat title and its third crown in five years. Following a pair of setbacks Saturday at the Big League World Series, ... - Date : Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:11:15 GMT+00:00
BEST OF THE BEST: Tamiami, Fla., Ewa Beach, Hawaii reach Bronco World Series ... - Monterey County Herald Tweet this news
Monterey County Herald---...- as the South Zone champions scored 10 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to beat -Caguas-, -Puerto Rico- 15-0 and waltz into the championship game. ... - Date : Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:45:40 GMT+00:00
Salinas Valley PONY Bronco team aims to finish off World Series on a good note - The Salinas Californian Tweet this news
The Salinas Californian--As it stands, Ewa Beach leads the Green Division standings with a 3-0 record and -Caguas-, -Puerto Rico-, is 2-0. Salinas led 1-0 early on, but Ewa Beach's bats ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:10:40 GMT+00:00
The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show - Age of Autism (blog) Tweet this news
Age of Autism (blog)---...- this year's show will be supporting the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo de la Niñez, Inc. (CIDEN) in -Caguas-, -Puerto Rico-. ... - Date : Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:56:25 GMT+00:00
Puerto Rican Women Face Rising Tide of Violence - WomensRadio Tweet this news
WomensRadio--Despite its groundbreaking 1989 law against domestic violence, -Puerto Rico- suffers one of the world's worst rates of intimate-partner violence. ... - Date : Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:24:46 GMT+00:00

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State capital: San Juan
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