Kaye

The city of Kayeu is located in central Puerto Rico, on the slopes of the Central Mountain mountains, north of the municipalities of Salinas and Guayama , south of the city of Caguas . Administratively, the municipality of Kayei is divided into 21 districts and the municipal center. Included in the US urban range San Juan - Caguas - Guanabo .

Kaye is a major commercial and industrial center. The city hosts the production of such well-known corporations as Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble . It also houses one of the campuses of the University of Puerto Rico.

The city was founded on August 17, 1773, its first mayor was Juan Mata Vazquez. The name of the city is taken from the language of the Taino Indians and means “place of water” in translation. In 1880, large fires took place in the Kayei region, in which many people died. By the end of the XIX - the first half of the XX century, there was a backward agricultural region inhabited by small farmers. In the 1920s and 1930s, the lands around Kayeu were bought by farmers by large, mainly American companies, and various export crops were grown on them (sugar and, first of all, tobacco). In the 1950s and 1960s, the Kayeu region fell into the Puerto Rico industrial development program.

Near the city is the third highest building in Puerto Rico - the Cayey Pegasus Broadcasting Tower with a mast antenna height of 332.5 meters (built in 1966).

The population of the municipality is 47.370 people (as of 2000). On a national racial basis, 88.2% of them are white, 3.9% are blacks, 0.2% are Indians, 2.1% are representatives of mixed races.

Suleyka Rivera - Miss Universe 2006 was born in the city of Kayei.

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