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/bah'yah mawn"/, n.a city in N Puerto Rico, near San Juan. 205,800.
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Municipality (pop., 2000: 224,044), northeastern Puerto Rico, part of the metropolitan area of San Juan.Puerto Rico's first settlement, Caparra, was founded nearby in 1508 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. Established as a town in 1772, it is now a manufacturing centre for clothing, furniture, automotive parts, and metal products. Educational institutions include Bayamón Central University.* * *
town, northeastern Puerto Rico, part of the metropolitan area of San Juan (10 miles [16 km]) northeast) and the island's second most populous city. Puerto Rico's first settlement, Caparra, was founded in the area in 1508 by the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. Bayamón was established as a town in 1772. It manufactures clothing, furniture, automotive parts, metal products, firearms, household goods, and food products. Bayamón Central University was founded in 1970, and the town has a regional college of the University of Puerto Rico. It is linked to San Juan by a freeway and is on the main highway to Arecibo. The statesman José Celso Barbosa (1857–1921) was born there. Pop. (2000) 203,499.* * *
Universalium. 2010.
