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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAJARDO  , a

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district and
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town on the E.
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coast of
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Porto Rico, belonging to the
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department of
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Humacao . Pop . (1899) of the district, 16,782; and of the town, 3414 . The district is highlyfertile and is well watered, owing in
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great measure to its abundant rainfall .
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Sugar
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production is its
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principal
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industry, but some
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attention is also given to the growing of
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orange's and pineapples . The town, which was founded in 1774, is a busy commercial centre
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standing 14 m. from a large and well-sheltered
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bay, at the entrance to which is the cape called Cabeza de
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San Juan . It is the
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market town for a number of small islands off the E. coast, some of which produce
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cattle for export .

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