Gerardo Gonzalez (also spelled Geraldo) was a

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

that owned a large amount of land in the southwest region of

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, close to where today is the town of

Hormigueros Hormigueros (, ) is a Hormigueros barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico located in the western region of the island, northeast of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Cabo Rojo; northwest of San Germán, Puerto Ri ...

, which he founded in 1874.''Hormigueros: History and Founding.''
Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 21 October 2012.

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