Where is arroyo puerto rico

It is a very arid area, although its alluvial plains are very productive because of their artificial irrigation. Monte Verde is located in the area between Ancones, Yaurel, and Pitahaya. Today, this town has some pharmaceutical companies and part of its land is used as dairy farms. However, the newspaper Gaceta de Puerto Rico published in says that Arroyo was founded in In the City Council adopted an agreement to open streets; then a year later the construction of the plaza and a culvert in the Marina Street of the town.

Two decades after the foundation of the town, Arroyo had 5, inhabitants. In the rural district Cuatro Calles became part of the urban zone. It was not until March, that the Legislature of Puerto Rico approved a law that revoked the law approved in July of and the Municipality Arroyo was reorganized and constituted again as an independent municipality with the same territorial organization it had before being annexed to Guayama.

In the urban zone of Arroyo, until that moment constituted by the district Cuatro Calles, was subdivided in the urban districts Pueblo Este, Pueblo Oeste and Cuatro Calles. Geographically, it belongs to the Ponce-Patillas alluvial plain subregion in the region known as the southern coastal plain. It is a very arid area, although its alluvial plains are very productive because of their artificial irrigation. Monte Verde is located in the area between Ancones, Yaurel, and Pitahaya. In addition, Arroyo has a mineral water spring in the old Colonia Virella, as well as a gush of thermal waters.

Some historians maintain that the first settlers were the Tainos, while others assure that it was a group of Spaniards who arrived in Guayama in search of a port for receiving and sending their merchandise. However, others assure that it was a group of fishermen. The founding dates to , although there are documents that show that five years earlier the request had been submitted to separate Arroyo from the town of Guayama. According to documents from the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works, it was in that the borderline between Guayama and Arroyo was established.

However, in , Gaceta de Puerto Rico published that Arroyo was founded in That same year, Samuel Morse visited the town for family reasons and installed the first telegraph line in Puerto Rico and the second in the Caribbean and the United States.

In , there were 62 small crop estancias farms in Arroyo, two iron mines, and one bronze mine. Fishermen from different parts of the world, including Africa, Spain, and Denmark arrived on its coast. The festivities include dances, food, parades and religious processions.

It has two horizontal bands of equal size. The orange and black colors keep alive a past filled with adventure and accomplishment. The Coat of Arms is placed in the center of the flag. Coat of Arms Cut into the upper blue field a church, a rosary to the right and a flower to the left. At the base, a tower between two silver telegraph poles on green hills.

At the bottom waving stripes of blue and silver, and below these, a fish. Above the shield, lies a crown of three towers filled in with purple. There are 10 public schools in Arroyo, education is handled by the Puerto Rico Department of Education.