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Coordinates 18°5′3″N, 66°21′34″W

Government

Founded

1579

Mayor

Hon Juan Carlos García Padilla

Political party

PPD

Senatorial district

Guayama

Representative district

Geographical characteristics

Area

Total

202.15 km²

Land

202.13 km²

Water

0.017 km²

Population

Total (2000)

37,597

Density

186.0 persons/km²

Time zone

AST (UTC-4)

Official website: http://www.coamo.puertorico.pr

Anthem – "Allá muy cerca del pueblo"

Coamo is a municipality in Puerto Rico located in the southern region, north of Santa Isabel; south of Orocovis and Barranquitas; east of Villalba and Juana Díaz; and west of Aibonito and Salinas. Coamo is spread over 10 wards and Coamo 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. ... PPD logo and accompanying motto: Bread, Land, Freedom. The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico â€”or Partido Popular DemocrÃ¡tico de Puerto Rico (PPD) in Spanishâ€” is a political party that supports the continuation of Puerto Ricos current status as a free associated state of the United States, which... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 kmÂ² and 10,000 kmÂ². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... 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). ... UTC redirects here. ... 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. ... Santa Isabel is a municipality of Puerto Rico. ... Image:Orocovis seal. ... Image:Barranquitas seal. ... Image:Villalba seal. ... City nickname: La Ciudad del MavÃ, La Ciudad del Jacaguas Location within the nation of Puerto Rico Country Puerto Rico Mayor RamÃ³n A. HernÃ¡ndez Torres(PPD) Area â€“Land â€“Water 156. ... Aibonito is a small mountain town in Puerto Rico. ... Salinas is a small Puerto Rican town near Ponce. ...

Coamo is a small town nestled in a valley about 10 miles east of Ponce (about 30 minutes by car). It was named San Blas Illescas de Coamo by its first settlers. San Blas was the Catholic saint who remains the town's patron. Illescas is the Spanish town the original founders came from (nowadays in Toledo province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). There are a couple of theories regarding the origin of the word Coamo. Some think it comes from an indigenous word that means "valley" but it's also plausible that Coamo derives its name from Coamex (or Coamey), who was a celebrated local cacique (or "chieftain" in the Taino language). Archeological digs near the region have produced some of the best examples of the island's pre-columbian cultural artifacts. Flag Seal Nickname: Ciudad de los Leones , La Perla del Sur Gentilic: PonceÃ±os Location Location of Ponce, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Government Founded 1692 Mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo Political party PPD Senatorial district 5 - Ponce Representative district 24,25 Geographical characteristics Area Total 501. ... The Taíno are the pre-Hispanic Amerindian inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. ...

History

Founded July 15, 1579, Coamo is the third oldest settlement of the island's post Columbian period (after San Juan in the north and San Germán in the west). By 1582, there were twenty families living in Coamo, in the same area where the Tainos had had their village of Guayama. Coamo became officially a town in 1616, and given the title of "Villa" by Spanish Royal Decree in 1778. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Image:San German seal. ... Image:Guayamas eal. ...

It was the administrative center that encompassed most of the southern half of the island during the early colonial period. As the agriculture and sugar industry which became the mainstays of the colony's economy grew, the province would eventually subdivide into several distinct municipalities and the administrative center of the region would later shift west to the coastal town of Ponce. Flag Seal Nickname: Ciudad de los Leones , La Perla del Sur Gentilic: PonceÃ±os Location Location of Ponce, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Government Founded 1692 Mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo Political party PPD Senatorial district 5 - Ponce Representative district 24,25 Geographical characteristics Area Total 501. ...

Coamo boasts an elegant picturesque downtown plaza area, and is the home of a series of natural hot springs, Los Baños de Coamo, which has attracted visitors to its medicinal waters since even before the Spaniards landed. Indeed, these very springs were once rumored to have been Juan Ponce de León's legendary "fountain of youth", or so the local folklore tells. In the early nineteenth century, a system of pools of varying depths and sizes and temperatures was constructed at the site of these springs to serve as a spa for the colonials. When during the North American invasion in the Spanish American War (1898), this was the scene of one of the decisive battles (the Battle of Coamo). The North Americans troops took possession of the island and the spa was subsequently abandoned. Though the site lay in ruins for most of the twentieth century, long neglected, it continued to be a landmark to the Coameños (as the residents of Coamo are called) who would often come to bathe in its healing thermal waters. The pools are still there but the buildings which once hosted the island's affluent and colonial soldiers are long gone, except for the remains of one central wall structure which has been preserved and incorporated into a fountain courtyard on the grounds of a popular tourist hotel and rest stop which has replaced the ancient Spanish ruins. During the 1970s, this writer ran and played around those ruins; the place was all mango trees. Huge ones. Juan Ponce de LeÃ³n Juan Ponce de LeÃ³n (c. ... The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, and resulted in the United States of America gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific. ... Combatants Spain United States Commanders Unknown James H. Wilson Oswald H. Earnst Strength Unknown 3,500 Casualties 6 dead 35 wounded 1 dead 10 wounded The Battle of Coamo was a battle of the Spanish-American War. ...

Flag

The flag of Coamo derives its colors from the Coat of Arms.

Coat of Arms

The top left and the lower right have a red background with a gold Episcopal hat each. These parts of the Coat of Arms represent the old seat of San Blas de Illescas. The horse and the bull represent the cattle wealth of the population. The gold color that serves as background in contrast with the black color, recalls the yellowish reddish tone of the fields of Coamo during the droughts. The heavy border of the Coat Of Arms contains the following figures: two flames; three bell towers with gold bells outlined in red; two red crosses with arms ending in three petals; and a circle with a surface divided by horizontal blue and silver-plated stripes.

Demographics

Barrios (Districts/Wards)

Coamo Arriba
Cuyón
Hayales
Los Llanos
Palmarejo

Pasto
Pedro Garcia
Pulgillas
San Idelfonso
Santa Catalina
Río Jueyes

Geo/Topography

Cerro Pulguitas, Cuchillas de Coamo, Presidio and Santa Ana.
Rivers are: Coamo, Descalabrado, Lapa, Jueyes and Mina.
Coamo Thermal Baths, nourished by the Coamo river.

Anthem

By Manuel Torres Tapia

Allá muy cerca del pueblo
donde nació Muñoz
entre montañas y flores
se encuentra también
donde nací yo.

Tierras de lindas mujeres
y de seres a quien amo.
un nombre Taíno tiene
y es mi bello pueblo Coamo.

Coamo, desde que partí
eché muy de menos
tus lindas mujeres
tu sol tropical.

Coamo hoy he vuelto hasta ti
para que sepas
que aunque estuve lejos,
no te puedo olvidar.

Coamo, aquí estoy otra vez
y yo te aseguro
que de ti más nunca
me separaré.

Quiero volver a gozar
de tu clima tropical
y aunque pasen años
nunca te olvidaré.

Economic

Agriculture

Coamo is an agricultural center where mangoes, corn, avocados, oranges, plantains, poultry and cattle are raised.

Business

Industrial

Coamo is a trading center for machinery, aircraft radio components, and clothing.

Tourism

Landmarks and places of interest

Coamo Thermal Baths - near the Santa Isabel border.
Historic Museum

Festivals and events

Coamo is famous for being the host of the San Blas Marathon, a yearly world-class professional marathon that attracts the best competitive runners in the world. It was inaugurated in 1963 by Phi Delta Fraternity in honor to the founder of the town. World-class international and local runners compete in a 13.1-mile half marathon. It's Puerto Rico's biggest race, and the crowds are always large.

Patron Festivities - February
San Blas Half Marathon - February
Flower Carnival - May
Yuca (cassava) Carnival - August
Juey (crab) Carnival - October
Bomba & Plena Festival - November

Transportation

Education

Sports

The Maratonistas (BSN), is the only professional team the towns hosts. The team has played in Coamo with mixed success since joining the league in 1985. The National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico —or Liga Baloncesto Superior Nacional De Puerto Rico (BSN) in Spanish— was established in 1933 and has produced a handful of NBA players and a lot of classic games and emotive moments to its fans. ...

Notable "Coameños"

Bobby Capó (1922-1989) - Singer, composer and government official
Jose Melendez-Perez (1946-Present) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Inspector
Milagros Quesada Picó (1930-2003) - Lawyer, director Legal Services Corporation of San Juan
Rafael Rivera Zayás (1885-1958) - Orator, lawyer and journalist

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References

Coamo and its barrios, United States Census Bureau

Footnotes

Books about Coamo

Additional Information

Photo gallery

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External links

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