Caguas (Puerto Rico)

Last modified: 2005-06-25 by dov gutterman
Keywords: puerto rico | caguas | guayama | cross | san sebastian |
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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 11 November 2004

• Overview
• Reported (old ?) Flags
• Coat of Arms
• "Barrios" Flags - Overview

See also:

• Puerto Rico
• Clickable Map of Puerto Rico
• Clickable Map of Caguas
• Puerto Rico - Subdivisions
• Savarona

Barrios of Caguas:

• Pueblo
• Bairoa
• Beatriz
• Borinquen
• Canabón
• Canaboncito
• Río Canas
• San Antonio
• San Salvador
• Tomas de Castro
• Turabo

Overview

This city of 136,633 inhabitants was founded in 1775, received the title of "villa" in 1820 and "ciudad" in 1894. The flag was adopted in 1960. The cross stands for the Cross of San Sebastián, for this was the first Christian village which settled in the Caguas Valley, together with the hermitage of San Sebastián del Barrero.Caguas as in Guayama district, central Puerto Rico.
Thanh-Tâm Le', 12 January 1999 and Jarig Bakker, 27 January 2000

The flag of Caguas was changed two years ago. on