Guaraguao | |
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,_Ponce,_PR_(DSC03021A).jpg) Scene in Barrio Guaraguao at PR-515 Westbound | |
 Location of barrio Guaraguao within the municipality of Ponce shown in red | |
  Guaraguao Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°07′22″N 66°40′16″W / 18.122779°N 66.671108°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Ponce |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.13 sq mi (10.7 km2) |
| • Land | 4.13 sq mi (10.7 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,765 ft (538 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,117 |
| • Density | 270.5/sq mi (104.4/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Guaraguao (Barrio Guaraguao) is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Marueño, Quebrada Limón, Real, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Guaraguao is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. It borders the municipalities of Adjuntas and Peñuelas. The name of this barrio is of native Taino Indian origin.[3] It was created in 1878.[4] Barrio Guaraguao is one of three Ponce barrios (the others are Barrio Anón and Barrio San Patricio) located on the Cordillera Central mountain range.[5]
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Guaraguao barrio
- ^ Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo. Hacia un Estudio Integral de la Toponimia del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ph. D. dissertation. May 1999. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Graduate School. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Page 54.
- ^ Barrios de Ponce. Archived 30 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Antepasados Esclavos.(From: Pedro Tomás de Córdoba. Memorias geográficas, históricas, económicas y estadísticas de la Isla de Puerto Rico.) Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ Ponce: Topografía. Proyecto Salon Hogar. Accessed 13 March 2019.