Miradero, Mayagüez

Miradero is a barrio in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The US census of 2000 reports a population of 5,510.[1] The total land area the barrio is about 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2). It is one of fifteen rural inland barrios of Mayagüez.[2]

Miradero
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Mayagüez
Area
 • Land2.9 sq mi (8 km2)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total5,510
 2000 census

History

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, finding that the population of Miradero was 1,268.[3]

The name "Miradero" means vantage point, or lookout in Spanish. The rural barrio of Miradero, today suburban, next to the city suggests and describes a place to see and admire. The name makes reference to the panoramic vistas of the city of Mayagüez and its bay and the Mona passage.[2] Eugenio María de Hostos grew up in the area, after his birth in the nearby Rio Cañas Arriba barrio.

Notable landmarks

Miradero is home to a number of sports complexes souch as: Palacio de Recreación y Deportes, Natatorio RUM, RUM Racquetball Courts and the Mayagüez University Campus Tennis Courts.[4] The Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo is located in Miradero. There are a number of schools located in the barrio including Southwestern Educational Society and the Academy of the Immaculate Conception (where, among others, Jose Juan Barea attended most grades except his senior high school year).

A venture capital fund local to Puerto Rico, named Miradero Capital Partners, Inc., is named after the subsection.

See also

References
  1. Retrieved, February 26, 2010.
  2. Cedó Alzamora, Federico (2010). MAYAGÜEZ,SU NOMBRE, SOBRENOMBRES Y LOS DE SUS BARRIOS (PDF). Mayagüez: Gobierno Municipal de Mayagüez. pp. 1–28.
  3. 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. 164.
  4. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Archived 2010-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 21, 2010.
  5. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Miradero Barrio
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