El Caño is a town and

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. It has a land area of and had a population of 3,351 as of 2010, giving it a population density of . Its population as of 1990 was 2,936; its population as of 2000 was 3,276. El Caño is named after a nearby waterfall found in a creek whose waters end in a nearby river. In 2010, at El Caño, a cemetery was discovered preserving numerous bodies and gold artifacts from a pre-Columbian culture.

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