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Marueño is one of the 31 barrio

Barrio

Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood.-Usage:In its formal usage in English, barrios are generally considered cohesive places, sharing, for example, a church and traditions such as feast days...

s of the municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel

Coto Laurel

Coto Laurel is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Marueño, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limon, Real, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Coto Laurel is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios...

, Guaraguao

Guaraguao

Guaraguao is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Marueño, Quebrada Limón, Real, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Guaraguao is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. It borders the...

, Quebrada Limón

Quebrada Limón

Quebrada Limón is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Marueño, Real, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Quebrada Limón is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios...

, Real

Real (Ponce)

Real is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limón, Marueño, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Real is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios...

, and San Patricio

San Patricio (Ponce)

San Patricio is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limón, Real, and Marueño, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, San Patricio is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios...

, and the coastal barrios of Canas

Canas (Ponce)

Canas is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limón, Real, San Patricio, and Marueño, and the coastal barrio of Capitanejo, Canas is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. It borders the municipality of...

and Capitanejo

Capitanejo (Ponce)

Capitanejo is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limón, Real, San Patricio, and Marueño, and the coastal barrio of Canas, Capitanejo is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. It borders the municipality of...

, Marueño is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. Marueño borders the municipality of Peñuelas

Peñuelas, Puerto Rico

Peñuelas is a municipality in Puerto Rico located in the southern coast of the island, south of Adjuntas, east of Guayanilla, west of Ponce and north of the Caribbean Sea. Peñuelas is spread over 12 wards and Peñuelas Pueblo . It is part of the Yauco Metropolitan Statistical Area...

. The name of this barrio is of native Indian origin.

Location

Marueño is located in the northwestern section of the municipality, northwest of the city of Ponce. It is a mostly mountanous barrio, as it sits on the transition zone between the coastal plains and the rugged mountains of the Cordillera Central

Cordillera Central

The Cordillera Central, meaning central range in Spanish, is used to refer to several mountain ranges around the world:* Cordillera Central, Andes , several mountain ranges in South America** Cordillera Central, Colombia...

. Its highest point is at Monte Marueño (Mount Marueño), which stands at 640 meters (2,100 feet) above sea level. The Pastillo River

Río Pastillo

Río Pastillo is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is also known as "Rio Marueño". Together with Rio Canas, Rio Pastillo forms Rio Matilde. Rio Pastillo is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality.-Origin:...

divides the barrio into two sections of fairly equal size. It originates high up in the mountains of barrio Guaraguao

Guaraguao

Origin of the name

The name of the barrio has its origins in Europe. Its name is, however, not found in any other part of Puerto Rico. The barrio, the tallest peak in the barrio, and the old river that runs through the midst of this barrio are all called Marueño.

In the Aragonese language

Aragonese language

Aragonese is a Romance language now spoken in a number of local varieties by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon, Spain...

, the name "Marueño" means "a bunch of rocks". The name could also be related to another word of Aragonese origin – "murueño" - meaning “the end of a field”, thus it could then refer to some boundary or refer to the low fence walls used to mark the edge of properties.

Boundaries

Marueño is bounded on the North by PR-801R and by the hills north of PR-501, on the South by Aguamarina Street, and Circulacion Street (18th Street) of Pastillo sector, on the West by the hills half a mile west of PR-501, and on the East by the hills half a mile east of PR-501. In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Marueño is bounded on the North by barrio Guaraguao

Guaraguao

, in the South by barrio Quebrada Limón

Quebrada Limón

, in the West by the municipality of Penuelas, and in the East by barrios Magueyes

Magueyes

Magueyes is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Together with Cerrillos, Machuelo Arriba, Maragüez, Monte Llano, Portugues, Sabanetas, and Tibes, Magueyes is one of the municipality's eight interior barrios. The name of this barrio is of native Indian...

and Guaraguao

Guaraguao

Features and demographics

Marueño has 4.21 square miles (10.9 km²) of land area and 0 square mile (0 km²) of water surface area. In 2000, the population of Marueño was 1,474 persons, and it had a density of 350 persons per square mile.

Marueño is a rural barrio where the main communal sector is the community of Marueño itself in the southernmost part of the barrio. The main road servicing Barrio Marueño is PR-501, which runs virtually the full length of barrio Marueño from its southern border with barrio Magueyes

Magueyes

to close to Marueño's northern border with barrio Guaraguao

Guaraguao

. PR-501 has two junctions: one connects to PR-502 heading to barrio Quebrada Limón

Quebrada Limón

, and the other connects to PR-391 heading to barrio Rucio in the municipality of Peñuelas.

The highest point of barrio Marueño stands at 3,083 feet and is located at the extreme northern end of the barrio.

Landmarks

Marueño is home to Río Pastillo

Río Pastillo

, which originates at its northern end and crosses the barrio in its entireity, dividing it in half.

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