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Lajas, Puerto Rico
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| Lajas, Puerto Rico | |||
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| Nickname: La Ciudad Cardenalicia", "Los Tira Piedras | |||
  Lajas, Puerto Rico
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| Country | United States | ||
| Territory | Puerto Rico | ||
| Founded | 1883 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Hon. Marcos "Turín" Irizarry (PPD) | ||
| - Senatorial dist. | 5 - Ponce | ||
| - Representative dist. | 21 | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 76.8 sq mi (199.04 km²) | ||
| - Land | 61 sq mi (158 km²) | ||
| - Water | 15.8 sq mi (41.04 km²) | ||
| Population (2000) | |||
| - Total | 27,009 | ||
| - Density | 434.6/sq mi (167.8/km²) | ||
| - Gentilic | Lajeños | ||
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | ||
| Anthem – "Nuestro Lajas, pueblito querido" | |||
Lajas is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in southwestern region, south of San Germán and Sabana Grande; east of Cabo Rojo; and west of Guánica. Lajas is spread over 11 wards and Lajas Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
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Located at the Lajas valley, the town was founded in 1883 by the Xueta Teodoro Jacome Pagan. Xuetes (Chuetas)were Mallorcan Jews (Sephardi Catalan Jews). Some families changed their names from Jacome to the Castillian form Santiago (Saint Jacob). Jacome is the Mallorqi form of Jacob (Ia'akov). Catalonian Jews from Mallorca were part of the early settlers in the South of (Boriken) Puerto Rico.
The flag consists of three (3) horizontal stripes; the superior one green, the center white and the bottom one yellow. A fourth stripe, of equal width forms a cross. In the center of that cross we have two arms united with a ripe yellow pineapple. The cross is surrounded by eleven gold stars; five in the superior (north) part and six in the inferior (south) part of the cross forming a circle.
The body is gold with a green band crossing it diagonally right to left; the color gold stands for the wealth of the land and green stands for the beauty of the valley which is a gift from mother nature to Lajas. The band is adorned, at each end, with a pineapple bordered in gold and black. In the center of the band, also in gold, a marine shell. In the left superior side there is a red cardinal's hat and in the inferior a red anchor with a green; the shield has 3 tower castle, each one with two windows and one door. On the bottom, outside the shield, a banner with the inscription "Cardenalicia City" (Cardinality City). The banner and the inscription appear in black.
Lajas is divided into the following barrios (wards/districts)[1][2]:
- Candelaria
- Costa
- Lajas Arriba
- Lajas Pueblo
- Llanos
- Palmarejos
- Paris
- Parguera
- Plata
- Sábana Yeguas
- Santa Rosa
By Hernán Ortiz Noriega (Rola)
Nuestro Lajas, pueblito querido
En mi pecho tienes un altar,
Orgulloso estoy de haber nacido
En tus campos que no he de olvidar.
Faro y luz serás de Puerto Rico
Con tu Estación Experimental,
Con el riego en tu Valle bendito,
La Parguera que no hay otra igual.
Yo te añoro en mi ausencia y suspiro
Por tus piñas de fama mundial....
Y en mis noches de ensueño deliro
con tus montes, tu valle y tu mar.
Lajas is famous for its main touristic attraction, Phosphorescent Bay (La Parguera) , a place where luminescent dinoflagellates of different colors appear when the water moves. The origin of the colored lights is the object of many legends. Lajas is also a fishing town.
- Cartagena Lagoon
- Indian Museum
- Old Train Station
- Old Silver Mines
- La Parguera
 Mangrove Isles, La Pargüera, 2006 |
 Mangroves, La Pargüera, 2006 |
 Houses on the water, La Pargüera, 2006 |
- Lajeño soldier Monument
- Magueyes Isle
- Mata la Gata Isle
- Pineapple Processing Plant Ruins
- Rosada Beach
- Matron Festivities - February
- International Kite Festival - February
- Agro Fair- March
- Pineapple Festival - March
- E. Ramírez Marathon - March
- Kite Festival - June
- Fish Festival - July
- Cock Fight Festival - October
- Bonoció Tió - Reporter & poet
- Jacobo Morales Ortiz, actor, writer and film director
- Jaime Frank Paganacc - Lawyer, judge, writer & athlete
- José "Purro" Basora - Boxer
- Luis Aponte Martinez, archbishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico and first Puerto Rican Cardinal.
- Juan Cancio Ortiz de la Renta y Lugo - Philanthropist, humanist & farmer
- Teodoro Jácome Pagán - Founder of the town
- Mons. Ulises Casiano Vargas, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mayagüez
- Johnathan Quinones- Filmmaker
- Lajas, Puerto Rico is at coordinates Coordinates:
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