In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Miradero was 1,268.

The rural barrio of Miradero, today more suburban, next to the city suggests and describes a place to see and admire.

The name makes reference to the panoramic vistas of the city of Mayagüez and its bay and the Mona passage.

[4] Eugenio María de Hostos grew up in the area, after his birth in the nearby Rio Cañas Arriba barrio.

There are a number of schools located in the barrio including Southwestern Educational Society and the Academy of the Immaculate Conception (where, among others, Jose Juan Barea attended most grades except his senior high school year).