Mayagüez

Mayagüez barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of , a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2020 was 18,569. As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings, and a Catholic church.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Locality with 73,100 residents
  • Description: historical center and municipality seat of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Downtown Mayagüez”, “Mayagueez”, “Mayagüez barrio-pueblo”, “Mayagüez Pueblo”, “Mayagüez, Mayagüez”, “Mayagüez, Puerto Rico”, and “Pueblo de Mayagüez”
  • Postal codes: 00680-00682

Places of Interest

Highlights include Isidoro García Stadium and Plaza Colón.

Stadium
Photo: Eljohnson15, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Isidoro García is a baseball stadium in Mayagüez, named after Isidoro "El Cholo" García, a local pitcher who threw the first ever no-hitter at a final series game in the Puerto Rico Baseball League.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the main plaza in the city of Mayagüez, . This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose name in Spanish was Cristóbal Colón.

Planetarium
The is the first planetarium in . It is located in the fourth floor of the Physics building of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in .

Mayagüez

Latitude
18.2011° or 18° 12′ 4″ north
Longitude
-67.1396° or 67° 8′ 23″ west
Population
73,100
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
MAZ
United Nations Location Code
PR MAZ
Open location code
77CJ6V26+C5
Geo­Names ID
4566385
Wiki­data ID
Q1917191
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Mayagüez” goes by many names.
  • Bishnupriya: “মায়াগুৱেজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Маягуес”
  • Catalan: “Mayagüez”
  • Cebuano: “Mayagüez Barrio-Pueblo”
  • Chinese: “馬亞圭斯”
  • Dutch: “Mayagüez”
  • Greek: “Μαγιαγουές”
  • Hebrew: “מאיאגואס”
  • Japanese: “マヤグエス”
  • Korean: “마야궤스”
  • Lithuanian: “Majaguesas”
  • Marathi: “मायाग्वेझ”
  • Russian: “Маягуэс”
  • Serbian: “Мајагвез”
  • Spanish: “barrio-pueblo Mayagüez”
  • Spanish: “Mayagüez (Mayagüez)”
  • Spanish: “Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Mayagüez Centro”
  • Spanish: “Mayagüez”
  • Spanish: “Pueblo de Mayagüez”
  • Ukrainian: “Маягуес”
  • Urdu: “مایاگویس، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayaguez, Puerto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayagüez, Puerto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayaguez”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayagüez”

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