Editing Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (section)

===Coat of arms===
According to the Puerto Rican historian Federico Cedó Alzamora, the original version of the [[coat of arms]] of Mayagüez was given to the city December 19, 1894, by the Queen Regent of Spain [[Maria Christina of Austria]].<ref name="HIST">"Historia de Mayagüez 1760–1960"; by Subcomite de la Historia de Mayaüez (Author); Page: 92; Publisher: Talleres Graficos Interamericanos (1960); Language: Spanish</ref> The upper half of the coat of arms shows the columbine coat of arms recalls and commemorates the discovery of the Island of Borinquén (Puerto Rico) by Columbus in his second trip to the New World in 1493. The lower half of the coat of arms shows a stylized version of Columbus's landing on Puerto Rico. The explorer's crew disembarked at the western coast of the island,<ref name="HIST"/> where several rivers spill their waters in the Mona Passage, among them the Yagüez, from which the name of Mayagüez is derived. The present version was reinterpreted by heraldist Roberto Biascochea Lota.