Caguana, Utuado, Puerto Rico

Caguana is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,009.

Geography
Caguana is situated at an elevation of 1302 ft south of Santa Rosa in Utuado, Puerto Rico. It has an area of 15.57 sqmi of which 0.01 sqmi is water.

History
It is one of the few municipalities of Puerto Rico to have an ancient area for Mesoamerican ballgames, called Batéy games, in the Caribbean. The Caguana Ceremonial Ball Courts Site in Utuado preserves the site where the Taíno people lived. The Tanamá River goes through Caguana, Utuado.

Caguana was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Caguana barrio was 2,555.