Puerto Rican Day Parade to honor Aguas Buenas

Aguas Buenas Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano

By The Star Staff

The municipality of Aguas Buenas will be honored this year at the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, to be held on Sunday, June 8, on iconic Fifth Avenue.

Aguas Buenas Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano made the announcement Monday after receiving official confirmation from the event’s board of directors.

“Having Aguas Buenas honored in this historic parade is an immense honor,” the mayor said. “It puts us in the eyes of the world and allows us to tell millions of people in different parts of the nation who we are and where we come from. We will march for our people with our hearts full of pride.”

The recognition makes the municipality the main focus of the parade, one of the largest and most important cultural celebrations of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States, bringing together more than a million people and millions more through its television broadcast.

“This participation, in addition to being a symbolic recognition, is a platform to showcase our traditions, our roots, and the potential for tourism, cultural, and economic development that our people possess,” Nieves Serrano added. “Aguas Buenas will be visible to a global audience, and we will do so with great honor and excellence.”

As part of the official representation, the municipality will invite students, artists, community leaders, public servants, and diaspora spokespersons to join the delegation. In the coming days, the mayor’s staff will announce local organizing efforts to ensure a strong and moving representation of Aguas Buenas, she said.

“The National Puerto Rican Parade in New York is celebrated under the motto ‘One People, Many Voices,’ and this time, one of those voices will be that of Aguas Buenas, which will arrive in Manhattan with its flag flying high, its culture alive, and its community ready to celebrate what unites us,” the mayor said.