INFORMATION ON THE ORIGIN AND GEOGRAPHY OF MOCA
LOCATION
The people of Mocha is placed in the tourist Zone Carries of the Sun Puerto Rico, Northwest of the Island divides in the 58 23 ' of the Meridian of Greenwich. It is located in a small valley in the skirt of the mountains of the Tuna to 141 feet on the level of the sea.
CLIMATE
The annual everage temperature is understood between the 76 and 98 Fahrenheit. The winds blow generally of the first quadrant between the North and the East.
RIVERS
The river Culebrina that it is born in the mountains of Homes, crosses jurisdiction for the neighborhoods of Silver, Flying, Fat Hill, Capá, Cross and Marías.
CAVES
Moca possesses 9 caves located in the neighborhoods Rocha, Olive, Center and Cleavers. The majority of they in the neighborhood Rocha and they are enumerated since they are registered by the Department of Natural Resources. These are: California (cave 91), located in the neighborhood Center; Of I Moan (cave 95), in the neighborhood Cleavers; Of The Credit(Subscription) 1 (cave 96), located in neighborhood Rocha; Cave The Swallows (cave 97), near the Credit(Subscription) 1; The Weapon - The Map (cave 98), near The Swallows and Credit(Subscription) 1. It(he,she) has a historical value since Puerto Rican was used by the terrorist groups to plan his(her,your) terrorist assaults and to hide weapon. He is known also as the cave of the map for which the Police I occupy papers(roles) and a map that was showing off to be used in the assaults of the group; Cave of the Well (cave 99), located in the neighborhood Rocha; Of The Credit(Subscription) the IInd (cave 100), located in the neighborhood Rocha and found evidence of petroglifos indigenous; Swallows (cave 114), located in the neighborhood Olives this one near the school The Second Unit; Cave Núñez (cave 159), others of the caves of the neighborhood Rocha.
SUPERFICIAL AREA
The jurisdiction has a total area of 50.7 square miles distributed between 33,427.13 ropes of area that understand his neighborhoods.
NEIGHBORHOODS
The people(village) of Mocha is clear of twelve neighborhoods that they are: Olives, Capá, Center, Fat Hill, Cross, Cleavers, Marías, Orange tree, Silver, Rocha, Flying and I Populate (rural and urban zone).
ORIGIN OF THE NAME
Though there is not known which is the origin of the name of Mocha, accepts that itstems from the great abundance of trees of Mocha that existed in the jurisdiction. On February 19, 1972 the tree of Mocha was adopted officially as representative tree of the people of Moca.
ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
Agriculture: minor Fruits: bananas, Guinea, lazy, yautía, yam, gourd, yucca, kidney-beans, coffee(café), small stone, etc.
Trade: Companies as Pitusa, Save Me, 1-2-3, Mr. Special, Select, Sedeco, Church, Mc Donald, Burger King, several restaurants, shop of clothes, banks as Westernbank, Banco Popular, Cooperative of Saving and Credit, financiers. Industries Mocanas: Factories of you donate, pork scratchings, typical sweets, peanut, gypsy integral arm, limber, games of quarters(rooms), hull, furniture in straw and oak, Inheritance(Heredity) Borincana, JT Bakery, Sausages Segarras, Glz + Glz Products, slightly fried and gelatinas.
Education: 5 intermediate schools Exist, 2 Superiors and all the neighborhoods possess(rely on) elementary schools.
National: Mocano Cognomentos: The Capital of the World Local dishes: There are them same local dishes that Puerto Rico consumes: rice with idlers, rice with green kidney-beans; sweet of coconut; sweet of milk; sweet of milky; rice with sweet; shaking; roast pig, pastry of Guinea, yautía or yucca; vianda; cod; puddings bloods; thick stew; pork scratchings porks; etc.
FOUNDATION OF MOCA
The Car of Foundation of the people of Mocha acts in the General file of The Indies in Servilla (Spain). File Núm. 2396 of Santo Domingo.
On April 7, 1772, Don Jose de Quiñónez I present before the Governor Don Michael de Muesas, with a power of 71 neighbors requesting permission to found people and church. After having filled the requirements of recognitions, demarcations, grant, of bail(deposit) and insurance of revenue for the priest, Moca stayed on officially founded June 22, 1772. Don Jose de Quiñónez was designated Captain Settler and The First Lieutenant to War of the new founded people. The Governing founding Priest of the Parish it was Don Manuel Marcelino Martínez Zepeda. The people Nepomuceno was founded under the dedication of Our Lady of the Monserrate and San Juan.
The areas where the people of Mocha was founded were donated by Dona Cándida Vives in 1841. These lands are inscribed in favour of Mocha in the record of the Property of Aguadilla by the number of estate 997. The estate has an area of 13 ropesand 49 cents and it was valued in those days for 1,000.00 $ and it is adjacent for the North to Dona Guadalupe Lopez de Otero's areas, for the East to areas of Alfredo Egipcíaco and Tomás Babilonia, for the South to Antonio Sanchez Ruiz's areas and the cemetery and for the West to Don Quebrada Santiago. |
