What is Guaynabo, Puerto Rico?

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Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Nickname: "Ciudad de los Conquistadores", "Pueblo del Carnaval Mabó", "Primer Poblado de Puerto Rico"
Gentilic: "Guaynabeños"
Location

Location of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico
Government
Founded1769
MayorHon. Héctor O'Neill Garcia
Political partyPNP
Senatorial district1 - San Juan
Representative district6 / 9
Geographical characteristics
Area
Total 70.2 km
Population
Total (2000)100,053
Density1,425.2/km
Time zoneAST (UTC-4)
Official website: [1]
Anthem – "Guaynabo, pueblo querido"


Guaynabo (pronounced as IPA: [ˌɡwaiˈnabo]; also known as Guaynabo City or GC) is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas; south of Cataño; east of Bayamón; and west of San Juan. Guaynabo is spread over 9 wards and Guaynabo Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city).

Guaynabo is considered, along with its neighbors -- San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Carolina, Cataño, Toa Alta, Canovanas, Caguas, Toa Baja, and Trujillo Alto -- to be one of the cities of the Área Metropolitana (Metropolitan Area) of San Juan (the largest MSA in Puerto Rico; many Puerto Ricans erroneously consider it the only metropolitan area in the Commonwealth). The municipio has a land area of 70.26 km² (27.13 sq mi) and a population of 100,053 as of the 2000 census.

History

Guaynabo was founded in 1769 by Pedro R. Davila (P.R.), after a struggle for division from the municipality of Bayamón. Previously, the city was known as "Buinabo", a name that means in Taíno "He aquí otro lugar de agua dulce" or "Have here another place of sweet water."

Barrios (Districts/Wards)

  • Camarones
  • Frailes
  • Guaraguao
  • Hato Nuevo
  • Mamey I
  • Mamey II
  • Río
  • Pueblo
  • Pueblo Viejo
  • Santa Rosa I
  • Santa Rosa II
  • Santa Rosa III
  • Sonadora


Anthem

By Rafael Velázquez Pericas

Guaynabo, pueblo querido,
yo no te olvido, eres mi amor...
Guaynabo, eres mi encanto,
te quiero tanto, de corazón.

Tu gente, sencilla y noble,
tus hombres son recordados
por sus hazañas,
por su lealtad...

Recuerdo a Baldorioty,
hombre valiente
y sin igual.
Luchando por los esclavos
allá en las cortes
supo ganar.

Su nombre es respetado,
alláien los campos
y en la cuidad.

Guaynabo, eres mi pueblo
lleno de ensueños
y de bondad

Economy

Long considered to be just a mostly rural, drive-by town for drivers who were going from San Juan to the western part of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo went through a large economic revitalization in the 1950s and 1960s. As a consequence, parts of the city have also served as a San Juan suburb preferred by upper-middle and high-income families. Today, Guaynabo has the highest per capita income in Puerto Rico. The urbanizations Garden Hills, Torrimar, San Patricio and Tintillo are among the upper class neighborhoods located in Guaynabo that where built in the 1950s and 1960s, with the notable exception of Villa Caparra and Suchville, San Juan's first wealthy suburbs, which were built in the 1920s. Residential construction continued between the 1970s and 1990s, where hundreds of new upper middle class developments were built: Parkville, Mallorca, Tierra Alta, Villas Reales, Ext. Villa Caparra, Mansiones de Guaynabo, Mansiones Reales, and Palmas Reales, among many others.

As a result of the proliferation of upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods, several prominent private schools were founded in Guaynabo, including Colegio Marista, Academia San José, Academia María Reina and Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, of which the latter two are located in the border between San Juan and Guaynabo, and which mainly instruct in Spanish, although most private schools extensively cover English to levels comparable to those of the mainland; and Parkville School, American Military Academy, Baldwin School, in the Guaynabo-Bayamón border, and Wesleyan Academy, which mainly instruct in English. The first modern shopping mall built in the Caribbean and Latin America, San Patricio Plaza, was built in Guaynabo in 1963, in the San Patricio sector next to Villa Caparra.

Guaynabo's skyline is filled with over a hundred high-rise buildings. Most are residential condominiums, but the buildings also include various major headquarters for banks and other businesses.

When Alejandro Cruz was Guaynabo's mayor, many sport facilities were built, such as Mario "Quijote" Morales Coliseum (then called Mets Pavilion). In addition, many manufacturing plants, such as the Hanes' plant, were established in Guaynabo. Guaynabo has, at different times, been voted the Most Picturesque and Cleanest Town in Puerto Rico.

Several businesses have their headquarters or local Puerto Rican branches in Guaynabo. El Nuevo Día, Santander Securities, Puerto Rico Telephone and many sales offices for large US firms (such as Texaco, Microsoft, American Airlines, Dell and others) have their Puerto Rican headquarters in Guaynabo. WAPA-TV (Televicentro) and Univisión de Puerto Rico have their main studios in Guaynabo.

Mayors

The Recent Mayors of Guaynabo

Mayor Term Party
Santos Rivera1969-1979New Progressive Party
Alejandro Cruz Ortiz1979-1993New Progressive Party
Héctor O'Neill García1993-presentNew Progressive Party

Mayors of Guaynabo from 1782 to 1969

:
Term Name
1782Cayetano de la Sarna
1800Pedro Dávila
1812Dionisio Cátala
1816Angel Umpierre
1818Juan José González
1821Joaquín Goyena
1822José María Prosis
1823Simón Hinonio
1825José R. Ramírez
1827Antonio Guzmán
1828Genaro Oller
1836Andrés Degal
1836Agustín Rosario
1840Francisco Hiques
1844Martínez Díaz
1848Tomás Cátla
1849Andrés Vega
1852Justo García
1856José Tomás Sagarra
1857Manuel Manzano
1859Juan Floret
1859José Francisco Chiques
1862Segundo de Echeverte
1862José de Murgas
1869Juan J. Caro
1873Benito Gómez
1874Manuel Millones
1876José Otero
1891Juan Díaz de Barrio
1914José Ramón
1914José Carazo
1919Narciso Val Llovera
1924Zenón Díaz Valcárcel
1936Dolores Vldivieso
1944Augosto Rivera
1948Jorge Gavillán Fuentes
1956Juan Román
1964José Rosario Reyes

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

  • Baldorioty de Castro Statue
  • Bellas Artes Center
  • Caparra Ruins
  • Caribe Recreational Center
  • Mets Pavilion
  • San Patricio Plaza

Festivals and events

  • Three Reyes Festival - January
  • Mabó Carnival - February
  • Mothers Tribute - May
  • Patron Festivities - May
  • Salsa National Day - June
  • Bellas Artes Camp - June
  • Bomba & Plena Festival - October
  • Christmas Lighting - November

Sports

Guaynabo's BSN team, the Guaynabo Mets, won national championships in 1980, 1982 and 1989, commanded by the player after whom the coliseum was named, Mario "Quijote" Morales.

Notable "Guaynabeños"

Diplomacy

Guaynabo serves as a host city three foreign consulates with business in Puerto Rico:

External links

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