Mayagüez Judicial Region, PR
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The Mayagüez Judicial Region anchors western Puerto Rico's legal market. Mayagüez is Puerto Rico's fifth-largest municipio by population and is known as "La Sultana del Oeste." The city is home to the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) — a major engineering and agricultural sciences campus. The Centro Judicial de Mayagüez handles civil, criminal, family, and probate matters for multiple western municipios. The economy combines higher education (UPRM), healthcare (Bella Vista Hospital), manufacturing (particularly pharmaceutical and medical devices), and agriculture.