Vejigantes de Loíza

Loíza Vejigantes

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• League: Hostos.
• Division: Este de la Metro.
• Nicknames: Pleneros, Platipúrpuras, Vejis.
• Cheers: “¡Dale susto!”

Photo credit: Édgar Torres.

LNP championships

None.

Liga Hostos pennants

1884

Campeonatos de las Ligas

1875 • 1876 • 1884

Series Interdivisionales

1875 • 1876 • 1884 • 1886

Series Eliminatorias

1872 • 1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1880 • 1882 • 1883 • 1884 • 1885 • 1886

División Este Metro titles

1872 • 1873 • 1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1879 • 1880 • 1881 • 1882 • 1883 • 1884 • 1885

Wild Card berths

1886

While nearly every town in Puerto Rico indulges at some point in the creation of vejigantes—the giant masked characters used to symbolize various terrors in parades and festivals around the island—Loíza is especially well known for the vividness and skills of their masks.