Guayanilla... Agüeybaná's Land

Guayanilla is also known as:

Tierra de Agüeybaná (Agüeybaná's Land) Los Corre En Yegua (The Mare Riders) La Villa de los Pescadores (Fisherman's Villa)

Wards:

Matron:

La Inmaculada Concepción

Topography: The Central Mountain range borders Guayanilla on the north with elevations that reach 1,000 meters. In the central region the terrain descends remarkably to elevations that do not exceed 430 meters all the way down to the coastal plain where the elevations do not reach 290 meters above sea level.

Hydrography: Guayanilla, Macaná and Yauco rivers. The Yauco River briefly runs through the Boca ward and ends at the port of Guayanilla, where some marshlands can be found.

Economy: Manufacture (chemicals).

Average Salary: $334.72 weekly (1998)

Flag: The flag of Guayanilla shows the main colors of the Coat Of Arms. It has three horizontal stripes of equal width: an upper on of white, a center one of yellow, and the lower one of green.


Coat Of Arms: The Coat of Arms consists of a quartered shield. The first and fourth quarters contain in a green field a hermitage accompanied with two houses, one on each side of the hermitage, all in silver. The openings are highlighted in red. The hermitage of the first quarter is accompanied by a silver star with eight rays. The second and third quarters contain a silver field, with a green lion. The lion of the second quarter holds in its right hand a red flower. In the fourth, a lion holds in both hands a red arrow pointing up. In the center resides a small red shield with a five-pointed crown in gold. Below the small shield is located a blue anchor. At the top a three-tower crown in gold, outlined in black and the openings highlighted in green. The Coat Of Arms may be placed between two sugar cane stems, with its two green leaves crossed at the bottom and drawn in the conventional heraldic way.
    The hermitage and the houses represent a primitive Christian town of Puerto Rico, specifically the one of Santa Maria de Guadianilla or San Germán el Nuevo, that were was established in the margins of the Guayanilla River, in the middle of the sixteenth century. The star symbolizes Our Lady; La Inmaculada Concepción, patron of the population, and the waved stripe, the river. The repetition of this subject, without the star, in the last quarter, alludes to the second foundation of Guayanilla, in 1833. The lion is taken, with alteration of its colors, from the shield of Ortíz de Almendralejo, Extremadura, a region where Don Rodrigo Ortíz Vélez came from, mayor and defender of Santa Maria de Guadianilla, and founder of San Germán de las Lomas de Santa Marta, a place where the primitive population was transferred during 1570. It represents, in addition, the value and the intrepidity whereupon Don Rodrigo and his men defended the town against two attacks and attempts of invasion: One by French Corsairs and another one by Caribbean Indians. The first victory is symbolized by the lily flower and the second by the arrow, which in this case represent the battles.
    The old crown, in the small red shield in the center, represents Cacique Agüeybaná, main monarch of the Tainos of Borinquen, whose yucayeque was located in the Guianía region, where today Guánica, Yauco and Guayanilla are located. The blue anchor in a gold field, symbolizes the beach and the port of Guayanilla. The crown is standard upon municipal shields and symbol of the unity that must characterize the inhabitants of a population or municipality united in its defense of its autonomy, conservation of its historical traditions and promotion of the communal well being.
    The sugar cane stems indicate that Guayanilla is located in a sugar cane zone and the importance that the sugar industry has had in the history of the town.

Name	Level	Telephone	Address
Elementary
CONSEJO	K-6	(787) 835-5002	PO Box 560250, P.R. 00656-0000
CONSUELO FELICIANO NEGRÓN	K-6	(787) 835-7451	PO Box 560519, P.R. 00656-0000
DALILA TORRES	PK-3	(787) 835-2145	PO Box 560490, P.R. 00656-0490
FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ	K-6	(787) 835-2770	PO Box 560575, P.R. 00698-0575
HIPÓLITO GARCÍA	K-6	(787) 835-3815	PO Box 560546, P.R. 00658-0000
PADRE NAZARIO	K-3	(787) 835-2280	PO Box 560490, P.R. 00656-0490
QUEBRADAS	K-6	(787) 835-2500	PO Box 560250, P.R. 00658-0000
ZOILO FERRERO	K-6	(787) 835-2610	PO Box 560085, P.R. 00656-0085
Intermediate
ARÍSTIDES CALES QUIRÓS	7-9	(787) 835-2985	PO Box 560357, P.R. 00656-0000
Secondary
SU MACANA	K-9	(787) 835-0401	PO Box 560510, P.R. 00656-0000
High School
ASUNCIÓN RODRÍGUEZ DE SALA	10-12	(787) 835-2030	PO Box 560459, P.R. 00656-0000

Source: Departamento De Educación

Hymn:

Guayanillenses, cantemos unidos un himno sentido al querido rincón, recordando gestos y proezas que dan testimonio de su valor con el dulce nombre de Santa María, la colonia un día tiendas levantó, con valor y arrojo frente ataques fieros, logramos el triunfo sobre el invasor. Con Pacheco al mando, tus veinte lanceros a los holandeses lograron vencer. Por eso tus hijos, ante el sino adverso, se yerguen valientes sin retroceder. Guayanilla, pueblo nuestro, del alma recia dispuesta a luchar, con fe y temple mirando al futuro, en pos de progreso, bienestar y paz. Guayanillenses, cantemos unidos un himno sentido al querido rincón, recordando gestos y proezas que dan testimonio de su valor con el dulce nombre de Santa María, la colonia un día tiendas levantó, con valor y arrojo frente ataques fieros, logramos el triunfo sobre el invasor. Con Pacheco al mando, tus veinte lanceros a los Holandeses lograron vencer. Por eso tus hijos, ante el sino adverso, se yerguen valientes sin retroceder. Guayanilla, pueblo nuestro, del alma recia dispuesta a luchar, con fe y temple mirando al futuro, en pos de progreso, bienestar y paz.

Events:

Student Festival - May Beach Festival - May Cross Festivities - May Fishing Festival - June Virgen del Carmen Festival - June Seafood Festival - June Farazo Festival - July Town Carnival - July Ladies Marathon - November Patron Festivities - December

Places To Visit:

Mario Mercado Castle Chorro del Oro Waterfall Convento Caves Guilarte Forest Emajagua Beach La Ventana Beach Tamarindo Beach Central San Francisco Ruins

Distinguished Citizens:

Bolívar Pagán (1897-1961) - Lawyer, judge, legislator & politician. (biography spanish) Jaime Ruíz Escobar (1939- ) - Dramatist and poet. Myrna Rodríguez (1940- ) - Painter and art critic.

Guayanilla Mayors 1833 - Present

Year	Mayor	Year	Mayor
1833-1836	Ramón González Bustamante	1873	Manuel V. De Novoa y Pla
1836	Martín de Anabitarte	1873	Benigno Rodríguez
1837	José Farrulla	1874	Guillermo Tirado
1838-1841	José Benito Rodríguez	1874	José Antonio Yordan
1840-1841	Nicolás Pacheco y Lugo	1874-1876	Emiliano Villoch Sauri
1842-1843	Dionisio Torres y Figueroa	1876-1877	José Antonio Yordan
1843	Tomás A. Pacheco y Lugo	1876	Julián Torres
1844	Felipe Rodríguez	1876	Domingo Salinas
1844	José Lucca Mattey	1877	Julián Torres
1844	Nicolás Yordan	1878	B. Torres
1845	Tomás A. Pacheco y Lugo	1879	Emilio Ibáñez y Toro
1845	Felipe Rodríguez	1879	Pedro Torres
1846-1847	Dionisio de Torres y Figueroa	1879-1884	Emilio Ibáñez y Toro
1846-1847	José Maria Torres Diaz	1881	Pedro Blasini
1847-1849	Joaquín Zavala Aguirre	1882	P. Rodríguez
1849	José Benito Rodríguez	1883	Ángel Marcucci
1849	José Lucca Mattey	1884	Camilo Buil Laplaza
1849	José Julián Rodríguez	1884	Miguel G. Torres
1849-1850	Antonio Porrata	1884-1885	Camilo Buil Laplaza
1850-1851	Simón de Rojas y Calle	1886-1887	Antonio Boyer Lliberte
1851-1852	Francisco Rivero	1888	Camilo Buil Laplaza
1851-1852	Lucas Vega de Alicea	1888	Juan de Jesús Ruíz
1853	Emiliano Villoch Sauri	1888	Sebastián Hernández
1853-1854	José Julián Rodríguez	1889-1890	Nicolás Demetrio Lugo
1854-1855	Manuel Boscana y Guillermety	1890	Manuel Antonio Zavala
1855	Lucas Vega de Alicea	1891	Nicolás Demetrio Lugo
1856	Ramón Ramírez	1893	Manuel Antonio Zavala
1856-1859	Manuel Boscana y Guillermety	1893	Nicolás Demetrio Lugo
1858	Juan Manzano	1894-1897	Manuel Antonio Zavala
1859-1861	Manuel Guindulain Calcina	1897-1902	Eustaquio Torres Torres
1861-1862	Manuel Dronyn Galán	1899	José B. Rodríguez
1862	Manuel A. Zavala y Aguirre	1899	William T. Wilder
1863-1864	Modesto Zenón	1900	José B. Rodríguez
1865	Felipe Rodríguez	1900	Eustaquio Torres Torres
1866	Ángel Marcucci	1902	Enrique Chevalier
1866	Manuel A. Zavala y Aguirre	1904	Antonio Arias
1866-1867	Felipe Rodríguez	1906-1910	Eustaquio Torres Torres
1867	Joaquín L. Dapena y Moreno	1912-1916	Rafael D. Dapena y Pacheco
1870	Felipe Rodríguez	1920	Isaías Rodríguez López
1870	Joaquín L. Dapena y Moreno	1924-1928	Benigno Rodríguez Pietri
1870	Juan M. Sariga	1932-1936	Rafael A. Merlo Echevarria
1870-1871	Emiliano Villoch Sauri	1940	Enrique Torres
1871	Joaquín Ferran y Pacainus	1944-1960	Julio Rojas Reyes
1872	C. Torres	1964-1972	Juan Torres Irizarry
1872	José A. Rodríguez Pacheco	1976	Carlos Torres Torres
1872	Ruperto Carpena	1980-1984	José A. Rodríguez Irizarry
1872-1873	Juan Angulo Meléndez	1984-2000	Ceferino Pacheco Giudicelli
1873	Guillermo Tirado	2000-Present	Edgardo Arlequín Vélez

Source: Municipality of Guayanilla

Mayor:

Hon. Edgardo Arlequín Vélez (PPD) P.O. Box 250 Guayanilla, P.R. 00656 (787) 835- 2660

2004 General Election Results Municipality of Guayanilla Party Candidate Votes Percent   EDGARDO ARLEQUIN VELEZ 7,743 57.70% CEFERINO PACHECO GIUDICELLI 5,260 39.20% HECTOR JOSUE GONZALEZ SOTO 307 2.29% *OTHERS 109 0.81% Total 13,419   Breakdown of Others   Reported Voting Centers Participation Direct Nomination 5   Registered Voters 16,060 Blank 63   Votes 13,419 Null 41   Participation Percent 83.56% Reported Voting Centers: 58 out of 58 for 100.00%   Total Registered 16,060

Source: Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico