Río Cañas is a
barrio in the municipality of
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Caguas (, ) 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. Caguas was found ...
. Its population in 2010 was 9,683.
History
Puerto Rico was ceded by
Spain
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in the aftermath of the
Spanish–American War
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under the terms of the
Treaty of Paris of 1898
The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898 ( fil, Kasunduan sa Paris ng 1898; es, Tratado de París de 1898), was a treaty signed by Spain and the United Stat ...
and became an
unincorporated territory of the United States
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. In 1899, the
United States Department of War
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conducted a
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Río Cañas barrio was 1,336.
Notable residents
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Tavín Pumarejo - actor and singer
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Dean Zayas - actor, playwright and professor
See also
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List of communities in Puerto Rico
References
External links
Work done in Río Cañas described on Caguas municipality official page on Facebook
Barrios of Caguas, Puerto Rico
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