Cayey

[kah-ye-ee]

noun

1. a city in central Puerto Rico.

Example Sentences

Army as a 19-year-old, seeing the military as his only way out of poverty, having left school in the eighth grade to farm to help his family in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

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The family then moved from Cayey to Savanna, Illinois, where he got a civil servant job at a military base.

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"In the mountains, it only takes a little wind and we are out of power," said Crystal Díaz, who lives in Cayey, a town about 80 minutes south of San Juan.

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Luis Noguera, who was helping clear a landslide in the central mountain town of Cayey, said Maria left him without power for a year.

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Farther south, in the towns of Yauco and Cayey, downed trees knocked out power and rivers raged dangerously high.

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