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Juana Díaz is located in the southern coast of the island,
south of Villalba; east of Ponce; and west of Coamo and Santa Isabel.
Several rivers run through the Juana Díaz territory, among them:
Jacaguas, Descalabrado, Inabón, Guayo and Cañas.
Juana Díaz produces sugar cane and beige marble--one of the
finest marbles in the world.
There are many well-known "juanadinos", among them:
Luís Llorens Torres, Arturo Gomez Costa, Emilia Villaronga de
Armstrong, Soledad Llorens Torres, tomas Carrion Maduro, Maria Braschi,
Lic. Herminia Torres Garcia, Luis Felipe de Jesus, Cesareo
Rosa-Nieves, Jose A. Romeu, Pedro Antornio Ocasio Bermudez, Herminuo
Mercado, Jose Chen Izquierdo, eladio Vega, Ramon Tristani, Jr., and Victor
Cotto.
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(HWAH-nah DEE ahz)
