Cedro Abajo

Cedro Abajo
Barrio
Looking northeast from Cedro Abajo
Location of Cedro Abajo within the municipality of Naranjito shown in red
Cedro Abajo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°17′06″N66°16′14″W / 18.28506°N 66.270461°W / 18.28506; -66.270461 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Naranjito
Area [1]
• Total	3.91 sq mi (10.1 km2)
• Land	3.90 sq mi (10.1 km2)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)
Elevation [2]	1,588 ft (484 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	4,627
• Density	1,186.4/sq mi (458.1/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
Zip code	00719

Cedro Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Naranjito, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,627. ^{[3] [4]}

History

Cedro Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers ^[5] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Cedro Abajo barrio was 977. ^[6]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	977		—
1910	948		−3.0%
1920	1,170		23.4%
1930	1,218		4.1%
1940	1,531		25.7%
1950	1,710		11.7%
1960	1,901		11.2%
1970	2,649		39.3%
1980	3,205		21.0%
1990	3,732		16.4%
2000	4,278		14.6%
2010	4,627		8.2%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [7] 1910-1930 [8] 1930-1950 [9] 1980-2000 [10] 2010 [11]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[12] in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others. ^{[13] [14] [15]}

The following sectors are in Cedro Abajo barrio: ^{[16] [17]}

Camino Roberto Rodríguez, Camino Toño Nieves, Comunidad Belén, El Hoyo, Higuillales, Lalo López, Sector Berríos, Sector Cuatro Calles, Sector El Bronco, Sector Felipa Sánchez, Sector Juan Cosme, Sector Juan López, Sector La Cantera, Sector La Telefónica, Sector Las Cumbres, Sector Los Bistec, Sector Los Pagán, Sector Los Pelusa, Sector Mero Morales, Sector Pepe Morales, Sector Pepito Berríos, and Sector Sabana.

Gallery

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  Puerto Rico Highway 808 in Cedro Abajo
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  Puerto Rico Highway 811 in Cedro Abajo
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  Puerto Rico Highway 814 in Cedro Abajo

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Naranjito, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cedro Abajo barrio
3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. (1969). Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN   978-1-4766-0447-3 . Retrieved 25 December 2018.
5. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
6. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p.  162.
7. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
8. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
9. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
10. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
11. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
12. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
13. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
14. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN   978-0-9820806-1-0
15. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
16. "Plan Territorial (2012)" (PDF). JP PR Gov (in Spanish). Gobierno Municipal de Naranjito -Oficina de Planificación y Ordenación Territorial. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-12. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
17. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL NARANJITO 073" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 26 September 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.