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Gurabo River and valley from Jaguas. / 18.25444°N 65.97306°W / 18.25444; -65.97306. Gurabo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɡuˈɾaβo]) is a town and municipality in eastern Puerto Rico. It is located in the central eastern region, north of San Lorenzo; south of Trujillo Alto; east of Caguas; and west of Carolina and Juncos.
El Cerro ( Spanish for "the hill") is a residential district or sector of the barrio Gurabo Pueblo (downtown Gurabo), in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. The district is located on a steep hill just south of the main town square of Gurabo. One of the most distinctive features of El Cerro are its step streets, pedestrian streets that ...
The barrios and subbarrios, [2] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others. Some sectors appear in two barrios.
Caguas (Spanish pronunciation:, locally) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey.
00778. Gurabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center ( seat) of Gurabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,509. [1] [4] [5] [6] As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing, created in 1972, [9] succeeded the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation, or Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV, its Spanish acronym), [10] which was created in the late 1950s to succeed the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, created by Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín and headed by Juan César Cordero ...
The Caguas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Caguas), or the Caguas-Juncos Valley and popularly referred to as the Turabo Valley (Spanish: Valle del Turabo), is a large valley lying between the Central Mountain Range and the Sierra Luquillo in the eastern part of Puerto Rico, immediately south of San Juan.
The Gurabo River ( Spanish: Río Gurabo) is a river and tributary of the Loíza River in Puerto Rico. In 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced work would be done on the river, [ 1] which runs through several municipalities including Gurabo, Juncos, and Las Piedras. [ 2]