Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (PR)

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Mayagüez (pronounced /maɪaˈɡwɛs/, Spanish pronunciation: [maʝaˈɡwes]) is the eighth-largest[4] municipality of Puerto Rico. Also known as "La Sultana del Oeste" (The Sultaness of the West), "Ciudad de las Aguas Puras" (City of Pure Waters) or "Ciudad del Mangó" (City of Mangoes)"Ciudad de Dios" (City of God), on April 6, 1894 the Spanish crown gave it the formal title of "Excelente ciudad de Mayagüez"[5][6], Mayagüez is located in the center of the western coast on the island of Puerto Rico. It is both a principal city of the Mayagüez Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Mayagüez–San Germán–Cabo Rojo Combined Statistical Area.
Mayagüez was officially founded on September 18, 1760 by a group led by Faustino Martínez de Matos, Juan de Silva and Juan de Aponte, at a hill located about one kilometer inland from Mayagüez Bay and the outlet of the Rio Yagüez (Yagüez River). The Spanish Crown granted the founders the right to self-government in 1763, formally separating the town from the larger Partido de San Germán. Originally the settlement was named Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Our Lady of Candelaria of Mayagüez) as to evoke an apparition of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. Most of the town's settlers, including its founders, originally migrated from the archipielago, whose patron saint is the Virgin of Candlemas.

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