Guayabota

Guayabota
Barrio
Rock wall at Guayabota barrio in Yabucoa
Location of Guayabota within the municipality of Yabucoa shown in red
Guayabota Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°04′18″N65°58′07″W / 18.071648°N 65.968522°W / 18.071648; -65.968522 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Yabucoa
Area [1]
• Total	10.57 sq mi (27.4 km2)
• Land	10.57 sq mi (27.4 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	1,024 ft (312 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	3,124
• Density	295.6/sq mi (114.1/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Guayabota is a barrio in the municipality of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,124. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

Guayabota was in Spain's gazetteers ^[6] 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 Guayabota barrio was 904. ^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	904		—
1910	1,700		88.1%
1920	1,778		4.6%
1930	1,853		4.2%
1940	2,525		36.3%
1950	2,267		−10.2%
1960	2,681		18.3%
1970	2,598		−3.1%
1980	1,648		−36.6%
1990	2,986		81.2%
2000	3,240		8.5%
2010	3,124		−3.6%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [8] 1910-1930 [9] 1930-1950 [10] 1980-2000 [11] 2010 [12]

Geography

The area is prone to landslides and its infrastructure and bridges have often been destroyed by hurricanes, and even by heavy rainfall. Puerto Rico Highway 182 goes through this barrio and its sectors. ^{[13] [14] [15]}

Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 19, 2017, knocking out power to the entire island (and also affected access to clean water). Many older residents of Yabucoa died as a result of Hurricane Maria. The mayor of Yabucoa, Rafael Surillo, stated on June 12, 2018 (nine months after the hurricane) that large swaths of Yabucoa municipality barrios Guayabota, Tejas, Juan Martín, Calabazas, Limones y Aguacate, and 100% of barrio Jácanas were still without electrical power. ^[16] In 2018, the people of Guayabota hoped to develop emergency plans and sustainable community plans to help them be prepared in the case of a future emergency, such as happened with Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria. ^[17]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[18] 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. ^{[19] [20] [21]}

The following sectors are in Guayabota barrio: ^[22]

Camino Doña Zaza, Sector El Cruce, Sector El Veinte, Sector La Aldea, Sector La Coa, Sector La Herradura, Sector Las Panas, Sector Los Sánchez, Sector Quebrada Grande, Sector Quebradillas, Sector Surillo, and Sector Tres Puntos.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

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

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Guayabota barrio
3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. 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. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
6. "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.
7. 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.  164.
8. "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.
9. "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.
10. "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.
11. "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.
12. 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.
13. "Municipio de Yabucoa atiende llamado de familia en Guayabota". Periódico El Oriental (in Spanish). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
14. "Atienden deslizamientos e inundaciones en Yabucoa". Periódico El Oriental (in Spanish). 24 May 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
15. "Familias en riesgo de quedarse incomunicadas en Yabucoa". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 24 September 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
16. "YABUCOA: Enfermos y viejos sin servicio eléctrico". Periodísmo Investigativo (in Spanish). CPI.
17. "Guayabota apuesta al desarrollo sostenible como plan de emergencia". Victoria840 (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
18. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
19. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
20. 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
21. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
22. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL YABUCOA 093" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.