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Algarrobos

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Mayagüez was a perfect smugglers' shelter for being a distance away from the barracks occupied by authorities. Its value was the strategic entrance to the Castillo de los Valdés in Algarrobos. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was in its jurisdiction a stronghold, the Algarrobo Fort,
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and Spanish battalions were there, one by the sea and another on the west side of Cerro de El Vigia. In the mid-twentieth century there was an American battalion located by the sea in the vicinity of Peña Cortada.
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tree. The Algarrobo tree is leguminous, with shiny leaves and purple and white flowers. Its fruit is the carob bean, which consists of seeds covered by an edible substance, contained in a capsule-shaped pod.
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Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios
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Between 1962 and 1998 it was the base port and the headquarters of the largest tuna factory in America.
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Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office
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Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Algarrobos barrio
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of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Algarrobo barrio was 1,054.
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Location of Algarrobos within the municipality of Mayagüez shown in red
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Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900).
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Algarrobos is a coastal, rural barrio deriving its name from the
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Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H.
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Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf
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Location of Algarrobos within the municipality of Mayagüez shown in red
Algarrobos is located in Caribbean
18°13′47″N 67°10′02″W / 18.229657°N 67.167322°W / 18.229657; -67.167322
Commonwealth
Puerto Rico
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Mayagüez
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Algarrobo
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Spanish–American War
Treaty of Paris of 1898
unincorporated territory of the United States
United States Department of War
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