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Government

Founded

June 24, 1820

Mayor

Hon. Luis "Rolan" Maldonado Rodríguez

Political party

PNP

Senatorial district

3 - Arecibo

Representative district

Geographical characteristics

Area

Total

172.17 km²

Land

172 km²

Water

.17 km²

Population

Total (2000)

19,811

Density

115.4/km²

Time zone

AST (UTC-4)

Anthem – "El cantar de tus ríos es mensaje"

Ciales (see-AH-les) is a municipality of Puerto Rico, located on the Central Mountain Range, northwest of Orocovis; south of Florida and Manatí; east of Utuado and Jayuya; and west of Morovis. Ciales is spread over 8 wards and Ciales Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city). A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Political parties in Puerto Rico lists political parties in Puerto Rico. ... The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico —or Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico (PNP) in Spanish— is a political party that campaigns for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision atomic time standard. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Image:Orocovis seal. ... Florida is a municipality of Puerto Rico. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Ciudad Metropolitana, La Atenas de Puerto Rico Gentilic: ManatieÃ±os Location Location of ManatÃ, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Government Founded 1738 Mayor Juan Bin Cruz Manzano Political party PNP Senatorial district 3 - Arecibo Representative district 12, 13 Geographical characteristics Area Total 145. ... Utuado is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central/western mountainous region of the island known as La Cordillera Central. ... Image:Jayuya esc. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

History

Ciales was founded on June 24, 1820 by Isidro Rodríguez.

Flag

The flag is divided into seven unequal stripes described in sequence: yellow, red, yellow, purple, yellow, red, and yellow.

Coat of Arms

The coat of arms consists of a gold shield with a lion standing on its rear legs and silverplated nails grasping a silver coiled parchment between its front claws. The lion also shows a red tongue. Above the lion in the superior part of the shield are located three heraldic roses arranged horizontally with red petals and green leaves. A golden crown of three towers rests on the shield. The three towers are united by walls, simulating masonry blocks. The shield is surrounded by a crown of coffee tree branches with their berries, all in natural colors.

Demographics

Barrios (Districts/Wards)

Ciales Pueblo
Cialitos
Cordillera
Frontón
Hato Viejo

Jaguas
Pesa
Pozas
Toro Negro

Geo/Topography

Toro Negro Forest Reserve
Rivers are: Cialitos, Grande de Manatí, Toro Negro, and Yunes.

Ciales' Poem

CIALES... CASI CIELO

por la Poetisa Nacional, Nimia Vicens

(A mis padres en la eternidad)

Ciales... casi cielo

Cuenca de tierramante de luceros
entraña y corazón de Puerto Rico
Corazón de la Patria
nido y vuelo

Desde la austera meseta castellana
esta ocre luz en grises tamizando
velo de oro en la otoñal nostalgia

¡altos los cielos!
secas vastedades... ...:
Por campos del olvido va el Quijote
las fablas de las piedras
recaundando... ... ...

Yo te recuerdo Ciales casi cielo...
Sueño tu noche de café y de luna
en lírica nostalgia estremecida
con tu Marzo embriagado de azahares
bajo el prodigio de la florecida.

Sueño tu aroma, tus campos y tus nombres
Frontón, Pozas, Caliche, Montebello
y... ... algún amor cantando en el paisaje
esta dolida copla del olvido:

Camino de la Florida
íbamos los dos un día...
en las altísimas copas
de los robles florecidos
¡el amor se nos perdió
no encontramos más la vida!
quedó la rama llorando
y las ropas desprendidas.

En tajo vertical sobre el Cialitos
majestuosas montañas recortadas
levantan un castillo a tu paisaje
mansión de soledad y de hermosura.
Rubí de Octubre el cafetal se cuaja
bajo el sinfónico silencio de tus noches...
Bajo tu cielo ?Ciales... casi cielo?
reposa un corazón... brava semilla
¡el más cialeño de los corazones
germinando los sueños y la vida!

Sí te recuerdo Ciales casi cielo
puedo tocar tus brumas... tus neblinas
tu atmósfera de fronda y de hoja húmeda
tu cielo bajo... tu tristeza amiga
y las estrellas silvestres a la mano.

Sentir la orquesta de La Sonadora
dispersando sonatas en la noche
mientras los ángeles custodios de las guabas
guardianes de tu flor y de tu fruto
mecen la niebla bajo las estrellas.

Embriagarme en tierras de Castilla
con su trópico y flor, jazmín, gardenias
¡rosas de los jardines de la infancia!

La Voz de Dios en trinidad precisa
¡triple en la yerba?! suelta sus tres notas:
es el Coquí cantando desde Ciales
la unidad de hermosura borinqueña:
frondas de cafetal, aguas de música
luna sobre el castillo en Cordillera.
Monumentos de verde tus montañas,
ungida tierra de rocío y helecho.
Poetas contemplando tu hermosura
entraña y corazón de Puerto Rico.

Y el hombre triste se consuela y sueña
bajo el influjo del noble poderío
que da su tierra... su casa... su montaña.

Jorge Luis madruga en su ventana
y emite al aire de la Cordillera
breve discurso de morivivises:

«La abeja liba la flor
yo libo, Patria, tu amor»

En la Torre de Ciales, Juan Antonio
=varón de la Poesía y de la Patria=
clama en tierno rugido su alabanza:

«Gloria a esas manos que trabajan
esas manos negras, blancas, indias
De entre esas manos nos salió la patria
alabanza alabanza alabanza»

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yo sólo tengo para ti, mi Ciales
este verso de amor y de recuerdo
escrito en la nostalgia y la distancia...
¡Te salve Dios, =mi isla=, Ciales mío!

Yo te recuerdo Ciales desde España
como si dentro del corazón yo te tuviera
dentro del corazón de la Isla mía
¡tantos nombres clavados en tu suelo!
Isla de la Palabra y la Poesía

Puerto Rico

mi Ciales

casi cielo.

Anthem

By Jesús Roure Pérez & Radamés Pagán Pérez

El cantar de tus ríos es mensaje
de tu origen ibero y viril
que orgullosos tus hijos ostentan
en las lides del diario vivir.

Y en tus sendas que adornan luceros
se engalanan con la tradición
que revive en tu historia las huellas
del criollo su fe y su dación.

En tus montes florece el cafeto
y en tus valles se yergue la palma
con su inhiesto penacho hacia el cielo
en ruego por la patria y las almas.

Y en Frontón, Cordillera y Bateyes
aún resuena del indio el tambor
recordando a tus hijos como muere
el boricua con dignidad y honor.

Ciales, Oh pueblo mío
cuna donde nací
de tus hijos orgullo,
de la Patria un jardín
de la Patria un jardín

Ciales, Oh cuna amada
en ti quiero morir
escuchando tus ríos
y el cantar del coquí
y el cantar del coquí

Tu bandera y tu escudo eternizan
los valores que haz dado a la Patria
y tu nombre es sencilla diadema
que en tus hijos el pecho engalana

Y en tu historia hay páginas de oro
que escribieron el blanco y el negro
que en tu nombre juramos honrar
cual cialeños y puertorriqueños.

Economic

Agriculture

Agriculture; coffee & cattle

Business

Industrial

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

Hacienda Negrón
Las Archillas Cavern
Las Golondrinas Cavern
Parada Choferil
Toro Negro Forest Reserve
Yuyú cueva
Las Cabañas de Doña Juana

Festivals and events

Cantata Corretjer - March Agua Dulce Festival - July Frontón Festival - July San Elías Festival - July Matron Festivities - October

Transportation

Education

Sports

Ciales is the home town of Juan "Pachín" Vicens - Puerto Rico's undisputed national basketball star, named Best Player in the World at the 1959 World Basketball Championship, Santiago de Chile (a.k.a., Juan "Pachín" Vicens, "Astro del Balón", "El Jeep"; younger brother of Puerto Rico's National Poet, Nimia Vicens, who also hailed from Ciales). Their middle brother, Jose "Coco" Vicens, a former Puerto Rico Senator, was a track and field athlete in his own right.

Notable "Cialeños"

Juan "Pachín" Vicens - National Basketball Star and named Best Player at the World 1959 World Championship, Santiago de Chile (a.k.a., Juan "Pachín" Vicens, "Astro del Balón", "El Jeep"; younger brother of Puerto Rico's National Poet, Nimia Vicens)
Antonio J. González
Carmelo Díaz Soler
Carmen Loreina Santos Silva
Fernando Sierra Berdecía
Jorge Luis Morales (1930 - ) - Poet
Juan Antonio Corretjer (1908-1985)- poet and political activist
Luis A. Miranda

*Nimia Vicens, National Poet (1908-1998) and older sister of Puerto Rico's greatest basketball star, Juan "Pachin" Vicens, also from Ciales, Puerto Rico. Juan Antonio Corretjer (March 3, 1908-January 19, 1985) was born in Ciales, Puerto Rico and was a well known poet, journalist and independence political activist. ...

References

Footnotes

Books about Ciales

Additional Information

Photo gallery

External links

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