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Encyclopedia Britannica



HUMACAO

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 871 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUMACAO , a small city and the
capital
  of a municipal
district
  and department of the same name, in
Porto
  Rico, 46 m. S.E. of San Juan. Pop. (1899) of the city, 4428; and of the municipal
district
 , 14,313. Humacao is attractively situated near the E.
coast
 , 9 m. from the port of Naguabo and a little over 6 m. from its own port of Punta Santiago, with which it is connected by a good road; a railway was under construction in 19o8, and some of the
sugar
  factories of the department are now connected by rail with the port. The department covers the eastern end of the
island
  and includes all the islands off its
coast
 , among which are Culebra and Vieques; the former (pop. in 1899, 704) has two excellent harbours and is used as a U.S. naval station; the latter is 21 M.
long
  by 6 m. wide and in 1899 had a population of nearly 6000. Grazing is the
principal
  industry, but
sugar
 -cane, tobacco and fruit are cultivated. There are valuable forests in the mountainous districts, a part of which has been set aside for preservation under the name of the Luquillo forest reserve. Humacao was incorporated as a city in 1899. It suffered severely in the
hurricane
  of 1898, the damage not having been fully repaired as
late
  as 1906.


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