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Florida, Puerto Rico
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| Nickname: "Pueblo de la Piña Cayenalisa", "La Tierra del Río Encantado", "Tierra de los Mogotes" | ||||||
| Gentilic: "Florideños" | ||||||
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| Founded | 1971 | |||||
| Mayor | Hon. Aaron Pargas Ojeda | |||||
| Political party | PNP | |||||
| Senatorial district | 3 - Arecibo | |||||
| Representative district | 13 | |||||
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| Area | ||||||
| Total | 26 km² | |||||
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| Population | ||||||
| Total (2000) | 12,367 | |||||
| Density | 475.6 persons/km² | |||||
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | |||||
| Anthem – "Florida jardín hermoso" | ||||||
Florida (flo'ɾida) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located north of Utuado and Ciales, south of Barceloneta, east of Arecibo, and west of Manatí. Florida is spread over 1 ward and Florida Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
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Florida, founded in 1971, it was the last municipality founded in Puerto Rico. Florida is known as "La Tierra del Río Encantado" (The Land of the Enchanted River).
Originally known as "Florida Afuera" and belonging to Barceloneta (another municipality), this town derives its present name from the abundant flowers and natural resources.
It consists of three horizontal stripes, with the following colors and widths: green the superior and white the inferior, with five modules of width each one, the center one red, with a width of one module.
Field of silver, in an abyss, a gules (red) anchored cross, between two branches of bloomed poinsettias (Poinsettia Pulcherrima). The Almeneda Campaign in green with a stripe forming waves, sabered, outlined in silver. At the top, a three tower gold crown. The shield can be surrounded, to its flanks and bottom by two crossed coffee tree branches with fruits, in a natural way.
- Florida Adentro
- Encantada Cave
- Pineapple and juice nectors
- Manufacturing (plastics)
- Encantada Cave
- Yanés Cultural Centre
- Three Kings Festival - January
- Aguinaldo Contest - January
- Cayenalisa Pineapple Festival - July
- Patron Festivities - September
- Encantado River Cultural Festivities - October
- Leonardo Valentin - Teacher and Doctor (Founder of Yanes Cultural Centre. The Dr.Leonardo Valentin Tirado school is named after him.)
- Celia Arenas - poet and author of Florida's Municipal Hymn
- Francisco Frías
- Luciano Sánchez - Lawyer
- Luis "Tuto" Rivera - renowned local historian, newspaper reporter, and photographer
- Juan Font-Torres - renowned lawyer with the Justice Department of Puerto Rico
- Mercy Soto - Doctor
- Norberto Montoyo
- Ovidio Santa - Lawyer
