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1947 Map of Mayaguez

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Mayaguez
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Mayagüez serves as the focal point of this late 1930s survey, showing the city's coastal orientation and its importance as an educational and agricultural hub. The presence of the University of Puerto Rico Colegio de Agricultura and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Experiment Station highlights the era's focus on scientific development and higher education. The coastline is marked by distinctive sectors like Marina Septentrional and Marina Meridional, while the Porto Rico RR and American Railroad provide the backbone for transporting goods between the port and the interior sugar lands.

Industrial and social life is recorded through named colonias and industrial sites such as Central Rochelaise. Outside the urban center, the landscape transitions into the hills of Miradero and the valleys of the Río Guanajibo, where smaller settlements like Hormigueros and Benavente are situated. The map details a sophisticated network of waterways, from the Río Yaguez to the coastal lagoons of Laguna Joyuda and Laguna Atolladero, which shaped the region's early 20th-century development.