Caguas Puerto Rico Shirts
La Ciudad Criolla, in the Turabo valley. If Caguas is your pueblo, or the one your family came from, here is what we make for it — and what we don't make yet.
There is no Caguas tee yet
We are working through the island's 78 municipios one at a time, and Caguas is not up yet. Rather than sell you a generic flag shirt with the name dropped on it, we will say so.
Ask for it instead. We design custom shirts, send a free mockup within 48 hours, and charge nothing until you approve it.
What we do make for Caguas
Puerto Rico Towns Tee — $24
All 78 municipios set as a block of type. Caguas is on there. Printed to order, free shipping, S through 2XL.
About Caguas
The name is Taíno. Caguas is named for Caguax, the cacique who held the Turabo region when the Spanish arrived — which makes it one of the few municipios on the island still carrying the name of the person who was here first. The town was founded on 1 January 1775 by Don Juan Mateo Delgado de Fonseca, under the longer name San Sebastián del Piñal de Caguax.
127,244 people at the 2020 census, fifth largest on the island. It sits in a flat valley between the Sierra de Cayey and the Sierra de Luquillo, fed by the Río Grande de Loíza and its tributaries.
Its nicknames: El Valle del Turabo, La Ciudad Criolla, and La Cuna de los Trovadores — cradle of the trovadores, the improvising singers of the countryside. Sugarcane built it and pharmaceutical manufacturing kept it going. The Dulce Nombre de Jesús cathedral anchors the plaza, the William Miranda Marín botanical garden sits on the old hacienda land, and the town has run museums for art, folk art, history and tobacco. It has been named a Tree City USA every year since 2009.
When your pueblo is somewhere you left
More Puerto Ricans live off the island than on it. For a lot of people the pueblo is not where they live — it is where their mother is from, or where they spent every summer, or the name on a street sign they have not seen in twenty years.
That is what a town tee is for. Not a souvenir. A way of saying which part of the island is yours, to the one person in the room who will recognise it.