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Hormigueros

American  
[awr-mee-ge-raws] / ˌɔr miˈgɛ rɔs /

noun

  1. a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.


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“They haven’t even arrived here,” said Yasmín Allende, municipal administrator for Hormigueros, a town in western Puerto Rico that is home to more than 15,600 people, many of them elderly.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Of the holy hermits who have resided on the island, several have dwelt in the caves where Caribs or Arawaks buried their dead, but the best-known shrine is that of Hormigueros.

From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

At about 600 yards from where the Hormigueros road leaves the main road the latter crosses the Rio Grande on a wooden bridge.

From From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan by Karl Stephen Herrman

Secretary of War, Washington:—The following message received from Schwan: “ ‘Camp, Near Hormigueros, August 10.

From The Boys of '98 by James Otis

The ground to the south of Hormigueros is covered with banana groves and cane fields.

From From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan by Karl Stephen Herrman

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