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Yauco
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yauco Municipio, Yauco, Puerto Rico, Yauco, PR, Yauco PR
municipality in Puerto Rico
Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United States
- Commonwealth
- Puerto Rico
- Founded
- 29 February 1756
- Barrios
- 21 barrios Aguas Blancas Algarrobo Almácigo Alto Almácigo Bajo Barina Caimito Collores Diego Hernández Duey Frailes Jácana Naranjo Quebradas Ranchera Río Prieto Rubias Sierra Alta Susúa Alta Susúa Baja Vegas Yauco barrio-pueblo
- Mayor
- Angel Luis "Luigi" Torres Ortíz ( PNP )
- Senatorial dist
- 5 – Ponce
- Representative dist
- 21,23
- Municipality
- 68.8 sq mi (178.1 km )
- Land
- 68.1 sq mi (176.5 km )
- Water
- 0.62 sq mi (1.6 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 31,608
- Rank
- 36th in Puerto Rico
- Density
- 501.4/sq mi (193.6/km )
- Metro
- 86,142
- Demonym
- Yaucanos
- Time zone
- UTC-4 ( AST )
- Zip code
- 00698
- Area code
- 787/939
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Puerto Rico
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Puerto Rico
- Population
- 42043
- Area
- 178.1
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Lares
- Image
- 2nd Plaza in Yauco.JPG
- Households
- 11654
- Dialing code
- 787
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- Commons category
- Yauco, Puerto Rico
- postal code
- 00698
- inception
- 1756-02-29
- native label
- Yauco
- per capita income
- 9124
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Yauco ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʝawko]) is a town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico. Although the downtown is inland, the municipality stretches to a southern coast facing the Caribbean Sea. Yauco is located south of Maricao, Lares and Adjuntas; east of Sabana Grande and Guánica; and west of Guayanilla. The municipality consists of 20 barrios and Yauco Pueblo (the downtown and administrative center of the municipality). It is both a principal town of the Yauco Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce-Yauco-Coamo Combined Statistical Area.
It was founded by Fernando Pacheco on 29 February 1756, and developed for commodity crops of tobacco, sugar cane, and coffee. Yauco became a center for Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico in the 19th century due to its geographical similarity to their homeland. Corsicans have contributed to many areas of life in Yauco, particularly to its coffee industry. This has played a role in the town's nicknames of El Pueblo del Café (Town of Coffee), and residents of the municipality are often referred to as Los Corsos (The Corsicans).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yauco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.