Caguana, Utuado, Puerto Rico

Caguana
Barrio
View of Utuado Pueblo from Caguana
Location of Caguana within the municipality of Utuado shown in red
Caguana Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°17′45″N66°44′49″W / 18.29571°N 66.746912°W / 18.29571; -66.746912 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Utuado
Area [1]
• Total	15.57 sq mi (40.3 km2)
• Land	15.56 sq mi (40.3 km2)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)
Elevation [2]	1,302 ft (397 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	4,009
• Density	257.6/sq mi (99.5/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Caguana is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,009. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Geography

Caguana is situated at an elevation of 1,302 feet (397 m) south of Santa Rosa in Utuado, Puerto Rico. It has an area of 15.57 square miles (40.3 km²) of which 0.01 square miles (0.026 km²) is water. ^[1]

History

It is one of the few municipalities of Puerto Rico to have an ancient area for Mesoamerican ballgames, called Batéy games, in the Caribbean. The Caguana Ceremonial Ball Courts Site in Utuado preserves the site where the Taíno people lived. The Tanamá River goes through Caguana, Utuado.

Caguana was in Spain's gazetteers ^[6] 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. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Caguana barrio was 2,555. ^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	2,555		—
1910	2,492		−2.5%
1920	2,768		11.1%
1930	3,068		10.8%
1940	3,491		13.8%
1950	4,153		19.0%
1960	3,607		−13.1%
1980	3,913		—
1990	3,723		−4.9%
2000	4,247		14.1%
2010	4,009		−5.6%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [8] 1910-1930 [9] 1930-1950 [10] 1980-2000 [11] 2010 [12]

Gallery

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  Tourists in the Tanamá River near PR-111 in Caguana

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caguana barrio
3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN   978-1-4766-0447-3 . Retrieved 25 December 2018.
5. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
6. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
7. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p.  161.
8. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
9. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
10. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
11. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
12. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.