YAUCO, PUERTO RICO

'Yauco' ('yau-"ko) is a city (''ciudad'') and municipality in southwestern Puerto Rico located in the southern coast of the island by the Caribbean Sea, south of Maricao, Lares and Adjuntas; east of Sabana Grandeand Guánica; and west of Guayanilla. Yauco is spread over 20 wards and Yauco Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
According to the United States Census Bureau estimates, the 2000 population of Yauco was 46,384 persons. Its land area is 176.5 square kilometers with a population density of 262.8 per square kilometer. Its postal zip code is 00698, telephone area code is 787, and it is in the Atlantic time zone.
'Yauco' is also the name of the principal town (''zona urbana'') of the municipality. The town's population in 2000 was 19,609. The town, built on a hillside, has stepped streets and traditional houses, some of which are open for tours.
''Yaucanos'' also call their home ''la Ciudad del Café'' (City of Coffee), ''la Capital Taína'' (Taino Capital), and ''los Corsos'' (The Corsicans).

Contents

History

Flag

Coat of Arms

Demographics

'Barrios' (Districts/Wards)

Geo/Topography

Anthem

Economic

Agriculture

Industrial

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

Festivals and events

Notable "Yaucanos"

References

See also

Photo gallery

External links

History

'Yauco', originally known as ''coayuco'', was founded February 29, 1756 (the loose translation of "coayuco" in Taino is "yucca plantation".) Once known as the coffee capital of the world, its coffee, low in caffeine but rich in taste, and its trade in coffee was beaten by market policies of the twentieth century, including the desire of the Puerto Rican government and sugar industry to develop trade in sugar at the expense of coffee. It is still known for its exports of coffee and tobacco.

Flag

The flag of Yauco consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, black the superior and gold the inferior one. To the center the official shield of Yauco.

Coat of Arms

Shield divided in quarters by a cross in the center that represents the Christendom.
In a silver field a gold and black boiler, with seven necks and heads of black serpents in each handle, three to the right hand, confronted with four to the left-hand side. Bordered by a checkered band in gold and black. The second and third quarter, in a field of gold, two coffee plant flowers of five leaves of silver and four red. The coffee plant flower and the coffee grains, represent their cultivation in the Yauco municipality. The border of the shield represents the beads of the rosary. The three tower crown, establishes its category of town.

Demographics

'Barrios' (Districts/Wards)

★ Aguas Blancas ★ Algarrobo ★ Almácigo Alto ★ Almácigo Bajo ★ Barinas de Yauco

★ Caimito ★ Collores ★ Diego Hernández ★ Duey ★ Frailes

★ Jácana ★ Naranjo ★ Quebradas ★ Ranchera ★ Río Prieto

★ Rubias ★ Sierra Alta ★ Susúa Alta ★ Susúa Baja ★ Vegas

Geo/Topography

★ Mount Membrillo, the Rodadero Peak and the Curet Hill.

★ Rivers; Chiquito, Duey Loco, Naranjo and Yauco.

Anthem

By M. Ramos Antonmattei
Pueblo de gestas gloriosas

es Yauco ciudad cafetal

sus hijos le escriben la historia

con cantos de gloria inmortal.

Por eso mi pueblo querido

tu emblema y noble pendón

serán por siempre tenidos

en alto con honra y honor.

Tus valles y tus montañas

son ricas en caña y café

tus hijos con amor trabajan

la tierra que les vio nacer.

Por eso mi Yauco querido

te canto con gran emoción

tu corazón se ha prendido

muy dentro de mi corazón.

Economic

Agriculture

Yauco's main crops are coffee, cotton, oranges, sugarcane and tobacco.

Industrial

Yauco also produces textiles and other light manufactured materials.

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

★ Mansion Negroni

★ Casa Franceschi

★ Casa Agre

★ Casa Cesari

★ Teatro Ideal

★ Lucchetti Lake

★ Nuestra Señora del Rosario Hermitage Ruins

★ Tozza Castle

★ Vegas Lake

Festivals and events

★ National Coffee Festival - February

★ Patron Festivities - October

Notable "Yaucanos"

★ Amaury Veray - Composer

★ Francisco Lluch Mora - Poet

★ Loida Figueroa - Poet, historian & novelist.

★ Julio Victor Ramirez, hijo- Investigative journalist, born in Yauco, but raised in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

References

★ Yauco and its barrios, United States Census Bureau

See also

★ Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico

★ Battle of Yauco

Photo gallery

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External links

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★ Yauco's Website

★ Yauco facts, history, & photos