Gurabo barrio-pueblo

Gurabo barrio-pueblo Pueblo de Gurabo
Municipality seat [1]
Museo del Deporte in Gurabo barrio-pueblo
Location of Gurabo barrio-pueblo within the municipality of Gurabo shown in red
Gurabo barrio-pueblo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°15′20″N65°58′22″W / 18.255578°N 65.972889°W / 18.255578; -65.972889 [2]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Gurabo
Area [2]
• Total	0.11 sq mi (0.3 km2)
• Land	0.11 sq mi (0.3 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [3]	177 ft (54 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	1,509
• Density	13,718.2/sq mi (5,296.6/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
ZIP Code	00778

Gurabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Gurabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,509. ^{[1] [4] [5] [6]}

As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church. Fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals) are held in the central plaza every year. ^{[7] [8]}

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza, or square, is a place for official and unofficial recreational events and a place where people can gather and socialize from dusk to dawn. The Laws of the Indies, Spanish law, which regulated life in Puerto Rico in the early 19th century, stated the plaza's purpose was for "the parties" (celebrations, festivities) (Spanish : a propósito para las fiestas), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors (Spanish : grandeza proporcionada al número de vecinos). These Spanish regulations also stated that the streets nearby should be comfortable portals for passersby, protecting them from the elements: sun and rain. ^[7]

Located across from the central plaza is the Church of San José (Parroquia San José), a Roman Catholic church which was inaugurated in 1822. Over time, the church has been damaged by hurricanes and repaired and remodeled. The latest restoration on the church was completed in 1989. ^[9]

History

Gurabo barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers ^[10] 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 Gurabo Pueblo was 1,309. ^[11]

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,309		—
1910	2,230		70.4%
1920	2,550		14.3%
1930	3,468		36.0%
1940	3,569		2.9%
1950	4,419		23.8%
1960	3,957		−10.5%
1970	0		−100.0%
1980	1,982		—
1990	1,922		−3.0%
2000	1,960		2.0%
2010	1,509		−23.0%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [12] 1910-1930 [13] 1930-1950 [14] 1980-2000 [15] 2010 [16]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[6] 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. ^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]}

The following sectors are in Gurabo barrio-pueblo: ^[22] Barriada Nueva, Casco del Pueblo, El Cerro, Rabo del Buey, and Vietnam. El Cerro is famous for its steep roads and step streets, and it gives Gurabo the nickname Pueblo de las Escaleras ("town of the stairs"). ^[23]

Gallery

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  Plaza de Gurabo
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  Church San José of Gurabo, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  One of the famous step streets of El Cerro.
• 
  Steep streets in El Cerro.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

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

References

1. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
2. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gurabo barrio-pueblo
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
7. Santullano, Luis A. (10 March 2019). Mirada al Caribe. Vol. 54. Colegio de Mexico. pp. 75–78. doi:10.2307/j.ctvbcd2vs.12. JSTOR   j.ctvbcd2vs.12.
8. Pariser, Harry S. (2003). Explore Puerto Rico, Fifth Edition . San Francisco: Manatee Press. pp.  52–55. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
9. Mari Mut, José A. (2013-08-28). Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas] (PDF) (in Spanish). pp. 106–108. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
10. "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.
11. 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.  163.
12. "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.
13. "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.
14. "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.
15. "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.
16. 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.
17. Mari Mut, José A. (28 August 2013). "Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2020– via archive.org.
18. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
19. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza : Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (Primera edición ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN   978-0-9820806-1-0
20. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
21. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
22. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL GURABO 084" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
23. "Gurabo". Discover Puerto Rico. Retrieved 2022-01-13.

External links

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gurabo barrio-pueblo