Isabela barrio-pueblo

Isabela barrio-pueblo Pueblo de Isabela
Municipality Seat [1]
Isabela barrio-pueblo, Puerto Rico
Location of Isabela barrio-pueblo within the municipality of Isabela shown in red
Isabela barrio-pueblo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°30′03″N67°01′23″W / 18.500759°N 67.022974°W / 18.500759; -67.022974 [2]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Isabela
Area [2]
• Total	1.46 sq mi (3.8 km2)
• Land	1.46 sq mi (3.8 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [3]	233 ft (71 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	7,826
• Density	5,397.2/sq mi (2,083.9/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Isabela barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Isabela, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,826. ^{[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 in Isabela barrio-pueblo is the Manuel Corchado y Juarb recreational plaza. ^[9] Located across from the downtown central plaza is the Parroquia San Antonio de Padua (English: Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic parish church). The church was built between 1819 and 1824. It sustained damage during the 1918 San Fermín earthquake. The current church, which is made of reinforced concrete, was completed in 1924; and the last time it was renovated was in 1998. ^[10]

History

Isabela barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers ^[11] 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 Pueblo was 881. ^[12]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	881		—
1910	1,268		43.9%
1920	1,699		34.0%
1930	2,641		55.4%
1940	3,439		30.2%
1950	6,895		100.5%
1960	7,302		5.9%
1970	0		−100.0%
1980	8,968		—
1990	10,275		14.6%
2000	9,204		−10.4%
2010	7,826		−15.0%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [13] 1910-1930 [14] 1930-1950 [15] 1980-2000 [16] 2010 [17]

Gallery

Scenes around Isabela barrio-pueblo:

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  Government building
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  Government building
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  Roman Catholic Church and central plaza

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in 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: Isabela 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. "Servida la mesa en duodécimo festival Isabela tiene Sabor 2019". La Perla del Sur (in Spanish). 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
10. 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. 118–120. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
11. "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.
12. 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.  160.
13. "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.
14. "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.
15. "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.
16. "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.
17. 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.

External links

• Media related to Isabela, Puerto Rico at Wikimedia Commons
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Isabela barrio-pueblo