Meanings
proper noun
- A town and municipality of Puerto Rico, United States, located in the Cordillera Central region.
In the hills around Utuado, most of the houses are abandoned. […] The only people I see as I drive around the region with Antonio Paris, an astrophysicist who grew up in Utuado but now lives in Tampa, Florida, are some lonely-looking men fishing off the dam at Lago Dos Bocas.
2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone
Origin
- Taíno[Term?]
- SpanishUtuado
- EnglishUtuado
From Spanish Utuado, from Taíno [Term?] (literally “between mountains”).
More words from Spanish, Taíno
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APA
Utuado. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Utuado
MLA
“Utuado.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Utuado. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Utuado,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Utuado.
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