[4] During the Winter 2010/2011 cruise season, the port was visited periodically by ships of the Holland America Line, including the MS Prinsendam.

By 1754, six years before being officially declared a town, the Mayagüez Bay was already identified by name in the cartography of the era.

[5] Yet until the middle of the seventeen hundreds there was no official commercial activity with the metropolis, contraband was the only commerce that existed.

[5] Being one of the main ports in Spanish Puerto Rico, the Municipal Government had built a dock and a longhouse to facilitate the loading and unloading of goods by 1836.

For some time it was maintained by municipal funds until 1886 when the "Junta de Obras del Puerto" begun to operate the facilities.