Editing Bayamón, Puerto Rico (section)

==History==
{{See also|Timeline of Bayamón, Puerto Rico}} 
[[File:PORTO RICO Bayamon (NBY 444111).jpg|left|thumb|Postcard from 1903 depicting Bayamón]]
The [[Taíno|Taino]], the indigenous peoples who encountered European explorers and settlers, were the long-time settlers in this area. Before the foundation of the municipality, Hacienda Santa Cruz was established near the Bayamón River in 1750. The [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonist]] Juan Ramírez de Arellano formally established [[Bayamón (barrio), Puerto Rico|Bayamón]] as a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] settlement on May 22, 1772, on a hill known as ''Alto del Embarcadero''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Municipio de Bayamón |date=2011 |title=Historia de Bayamón |url=https://www.municipiodebayamon.com/baya-system/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/historia-de-bayaman.pdf}}</ref> The establishment of [[Invención de la Santa Cruz Parish|its current parish church]] on that same spot also dates to this year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EMYM.ORG - Parroquia Invención de la Santísima Cruz en Bayamón |url=https://www.emym.org/parroquias/96.html |access-date=2022-02-07 |website=www.emym.org}}</ref>

In 1821, [[Marcos Xiorro]], an [[Ethnic groups of Africa|African]] [[Slavery in the Americas|slave]], planned to lead a revolt against the [[sugarcane]] [[Sugar plantations in the Caribbean|plantation]] owners and the Spanish colonial government in Puerto Rico. The slave conspiracy was revealed and suppressed, but Xiorro became a hero among the slaves. He is part of Puerto Rico's folklore. Marco Xiorro was owned by Vicente Andino, a militia captain who owned a [[sugarcane]] plantation in Bayamón.<ref name="GB">[[Guillermo A. Baralt]], ''Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795–1873'', Markus Wiener Publishers; {{ISBN|1-55876-463-1}}, {{ISBN|978-1-55876-463-7}}</ref> An [[1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami|earthquake in 1867]] caused damages in Bayamón, particularly to its parish church.<ref name="Mari Mut 2013">{{cite book |last=Mari Mut |first=José A. |url=http://edicionesdigitales.info/PueblosPR/pueblospr.pdf |title=Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas] |date=2013-08-28 |pages=40–42 |language=es |access-date=2021-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214203116/http://edicionesdigitales.info/PueblosPR/pueblospr.pdf |archive-date=2020-12-14 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Puerto Rico was ceded by [[Spain]] in the aftermath of the [[Spanish–American War]] under the terms of the [[Treaty of Paris of 1898]] and became a territory of the United States. In 1899, the [[United States Department of War]] conducted a [[census]] of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Bayamón was 19,940.<ref name="OfficeSanger1900">{{cite book|author1=Joseph Prentiss Sanger|author2=Henry Gannett|author3=Walter Francis Willcox|title=Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office|url=https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog|year=1900|publisher=Imprenta del gobierno|page=[https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog/page/n252 161]|language=es|access-date=2020-01-28|archive-date=2012-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115044918/http://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog|url-status=live}}</ref> The city grew considerably during the start of the 20th century. The area became home to numerous factories specializing in textiles, fertilizer, aluminum between 1901 and 1920. During this time the city also became home to financial institutions such as the Puerto Rico Commercial Bank (Banco Comercial de Puerto Rico), the American Colonial Bank, the [[First National City Bank of New York]], the [[Chase Bank|Chase Manhattan Bank]] and the [[Popular, Inc.|Banco Popular de Puerto Rico]]. This developed and strengthened Bayamón's economy and turned it into both an industrial and commercial hub. The city's infrastructure also developed with the establishment of a bigger sewer system.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Historia de la Ciudad de Bayamón|url=https://www.municipiodebayamon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Historia-de-bayamon-Template-Update-2021.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.municipiodebayamon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Historia-de-bayamon-Template-Update-2021.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-10|website=Ciudad de Bayamón}}</ref>

The city was also host to some of the events of the [[1979 Pan American Games|VIII Pan American Games]] in 1979.

[[File:171017-F-KA253-0111 (37544294300).jpg|thumb|Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Bayamón on Oct. 17]]
[[Hurricane Maria]] struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, causing large-scale damage and destruction to infrastructure. Numerous landslides occurred in Bayamón as a result of the hurricane's significant amount of rainfall.<ref name="USGS_Maria_Landslides">{{cite web |title=Preliminary Locations of Landslide Impacts from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico |url=https://landslides.usgs.gov/research/featured/2017/maria-pr/ |website=USGS Landslide Hazards Program |publisher=USGS |access-date=2019-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303143147/https://landslides.usgs.gov/research/featured/2017/maria-pr/ |archive-date=2019-03-03 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="USGS_Maria_Landslides map">{{cite web |title=Preliminary Locations of Landslide Impacts from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico |url=https://landslides.usgs.gov/research/featured/2017/maria-pr/images/PR_Maria_LS_density_map.pdf |website=USGS Landslide Hazards Program |publisher=USGS |access-date=2019-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303143147/https://landslides.usgs.gov/research/featured/2017/maria-pr/images/PR_Maria_LS_density_map.pdf |archive-date=2019-03-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> In Bayamón, around 300 homes were destroyed, and two people were killed by Hurricane María. Many municipal buildings, and the [[Goya Foods]] factory in Bayamón sustained significant damage.<ref>{{cite news | title=María, un nombre que no vamos a olvidar. María hizo añicos la infraestructura eléctrica de Bayamón | trans-title=Maria, a name we will never forget. María shattered the electrical infrastructure of Bayamón |newspaper=El Nuevo Día| date=2019-06-13 | url=https://huracanmaria.elnuevodia.com/2017/municipio/bayamon/| language=es | access-date=2021-08-24}}</ref>