Editing Caguas, Puerto Rico (section)

==Etymology and nicknames==
Caguas, originally founded as '''San Sebastián del Piñal de Caguax''', is named after the local [[Taíno|Taino]] chieftain [[Caguax]], who at the time of the Spanish arrival in 1493 was [[cacique]] of the yucayeque and region of Turabo.<ref>[http://cuatro-pr.org/node/212 ''Florencio Morales Ramos: Ramito, “el Cantor de la Montaña”.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107154326/http://www.cuatro-pr.org/node/212|date=2017-11-07}} David Morales. Our Country Music. Undated. Accessed 8 December 2018.</ref> The name Caguax itself might be related to the [[Taíno language|Taino]] word for snail or slug: ‘cagua’, similar to other [[Arawakan languages|Arawakan]] and [[Cariban languages|Cariban]] proper names such as [[Cagua]] in [[Venezuela]] (from the [[Cumanagoto language|Cumanagoto]] word ''cahigua'').<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alvarado |first=Lisandro |title=Glosario de voces indígenas de Venezuela |publisher=Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana |year=2008 |publication-place=Caracas |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name="Loukotka">{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |author-link=Čestmír Loukotka |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Caguas is nicknamed "Valley of the Turabo" (''Valle del Turabo'') in reference to the former cacicazgo and yucayeque lead by Caguax. The [[Turabo River]] is also named after this geopolitical toponym. Other nicknames for Caguas include “the [[Criollo people|Criollo]] city” (''La Ciudad Criolla'') and “the Cradle of ''[[Music of Puerto Rico|Trovadores]]''” (''La Cuna de los Trovadores'').<ref name="IndicePR 2016">{{cite web |date=27 August 2016 |title=Los cognomentos de los 78 municipios de Puerto Rico [Nicknames of the 78 "municipios" of Puerto Rico] |url=http://www.indicepr.com/noticias/2016/08/27/action/64215/los-cognomentos-de-los-78-municipios-de-puerto-rico/ |access-date=14 June 2020 |website=IndicePR |language=es}}</ref> The city is often known as the “center and heart of Puerto Rico” (c''entro y corazón de Puerto Rico'') for its geographical location,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caguas: Centro y Corazón de Puerto Rico |url=https://www.visitacaguas.com/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=VisitaCaguas |language=es}}</ref> and one of its municipal anthems bears the same. In recent years the municipality has also been referred to as “the new Caguas country” or “the new land of Caguas” (''el nuevo país de Caguas'') by the media and the former mayor [[William Miranda Marín]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-05 |title=Willie Miranda Marín, un boricua que soñó con "un nuevo país" (Biografía y vídeos) |url=https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/notas/willie-miranda-marin-un-boricua-que-sono-con-un-nuevo-pais-biografia-y-videos/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Primera Hora |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=admin_caguax |date=2019-04-11 |title=Hon. William E. Miranda Torres, Alcalde |url=https://caguas.gov.pr/hon-william-e-miranda-torres-alcalde/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Municipio de Caguas |language=en}}</ref>