• Senatorial District # 5 Ponce represented by Hon. Modesto Agosto Alicea (PPD)
  y el Hon. Bruno A. Ramos Olivero (PPD).
  
  
• Representative District # 22 represented by Hon. Javier A. Rivera Aquino (PNP).

1. The main figure of the Coat of Arms is a Cemí crossed by a sword. The color of the Cemí is brown, imitating the color of the earth. The silver sword with gold grip invokes San Miguel Arcángel, Patron Saint of Utuado. The Cemí indicates the rich pre-Columbian historical tradition. The combination of the symbols stands for the unity and continuity of the pagan past of the Taíno and the Christian present of Utuado.
2. The mythological indigenous figure represents the Woman of Caguana, symbol of fertility for the Taínos.
3. The symbols of the mines, the gold pick and shovel crossed with the traditional lamp of the silver miners, with the red flame, refer to the mineral wealth of the zone and the mining operations of the past.
4. The color of the field is blue for the blue skies of the town contrasting with the green of the landscape.
5. The waving silver stripe invokes the Vivi River, of which Utuado takes its name from "City of Vivi".
6. For the top an Indian crown brown. With it the traditional value of Utuado in pre-Columbian history is indicated. This symbol distinguishes Utuado from the remaining municipalities of the island.

Events:

Barrio Angeles Fiesta - March Tierra Adentro Festival - April Guarionex Fiestas - Abril Cross Rosary - May Patron Festivities - September

Places To Visit:

Cascada El Saltillo Lago Dos Bocas Galería Ivanet Hacienda Roses Monumento a los Soldados Utuadeños Represa Dos Bocas Reserva Forestal Rio Abajo Taller Hacienda Taína El Gran Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana

The Indigenous Ceremonial Center of Caguana was discovered during the first decades of the twentieth century. With the change of sovereignty, numerous interested scientists arrived to Puerto Rico. The works of excavation and investigation in Caguana began with the work of doctors Franz Boas, James Alden and A. T. Aitken at that time. Since the thirties, Caguana has been systematically excavated and studied, and at the present time it is considered by the specialists as the most valuable center of the Taíno culture in all the Antillean region. The plazas or playing grounds found seem to indicate the existence of a center of complex religious ceremonies where ball games seem to have been of spiritual significance. Its believed that Caguana was a ceremonial center in which few people lived permanently, although at certain moments great crowds of neighboring towns met to participate in important ceremonies. The ceremonial area consists of a great central plaza, ten rectangular plazas of diverse dimensions and one circular plaza. The plazas are bordered by rows of great variety of monoliths with engravings of mythological figures. In 1956 the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture acquired and recovered this valuable monument of our native culture, to conserve it within the natural frame of the indigenous flora of the trees and the native plants of Puerto Rico. A Taína culture museum is located in the building within the facilities of the park. Here are shown a variety of representative objects of the Taíno culture.

Distinguished Citizens:

María Libertad Gómez - Educator y politician leader. Luz María Negrón de Hutchinson - Pianist & profesor. Isaac González Martínez - Doctor Jesús María Lago - Poet & paintor

Mayor:

Hon. Alan González (PNP) P.O. Box 190 Utuado, P.R. 00641 (787) 894- 3505

2004 General Election Results Municipality of Utuado Party Candidate Votes Percent   ALAN J. GONZALEZ CANCEL 10,964 52.66% JOSE MIGUEL ORTIZ VIRUET 9,372 45.01% IVAN COLLAZO DE JESUS 326 1.57% *OTHERS 158 0.76% Total 20,820   Breakdown of Others   Reported Voting Centers Participation Direct Nomination 8   Registered Voters 24,790 Blank 91   Votes 20,820 Null 59   Participation Percent 83.99% Reported Voting Centers: 88 out of 88 for 100.00%   Total Registered 24,790

Source: Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico