Quebrada Cruz

Quebrada Cruz
Barrio
Refugio de Vida Silvestre del Embalse La Plata in Quebrada Cruz
Location of Quebrada Cruz within the municipality of Toa Alta shown in red
Quebrada Cruz Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°20′24″N66°15′27″W / 18.340131°N 66.257638°W / 18.340131; -66.257638 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Toa Alta
Area [1]
• Total	3.72 sq mi (9.6 km2)
• Land	3.60 sq mi (9.3 km2)
• Water	0.12 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation [2]	436 ft (133 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	5,343
• Density	1,484.2/sq mi (573.1/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Quebrada Cruz is a barrio in the municipality of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,343 living in over 30 sectors. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,665		—
1910	1,367		−17.9%
1920	1,369		0.1%
1930	1,579		15.3%
1940	1,750		10.8%
1950	2,189		25.1%
1960	2,286		4.4%
1980	2,747		—
1990	4,183		52.3%
2000	5,051		20.8%
2010	5,343		5.8%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [6] 1910-1930 [7] 1930-1950 [8] 1980-2000 [9] 2010 [10]

History

The barrio 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 Quebrada Cruz barrio was 1,665. ^[12]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[13] 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. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

The following sectors are in Quebrada Cruz barrio: ^[17]

Hacienda María Luisa, Parcelas Quebrada Cruz, Reparto León, Reparto Mariela, Reparto Monte Claro, Sector Álvarez, Sector Brame, Sector Calderón, Sector El Cuatro, Sector El Cuco, Sector Hacienda Leila, Sector Hacienda Paola, Sector La Cuchilla, Sector Lomas García, Sector Los Chárriez, Sector Los Cocos, Sector Pacheco, Sector Pastos Comunales, Sector Pérez, Sector Proyecto Los Cocos, Sector Punta Brava, Sector Sánchez, Urbanización Colinas del Sol, Urbanización Hacienda Lumaris, Urbanización Haciendas del Lago, Urbanización Los Pinos, Urbanización Los Silos, Urbanización Palma Arenas, Urbanización Pradera del Toa, Urbanización Quintas de Plaza Aquarium, Urbanización Santa Cruz, Urbanización Villa Toa, and Urbanización Vistas de Plaza Aquarium.

Gallery

• 
  Eastern terminus of Puerto Rico Highway 159 between Quebrada Arenas and Quebrada Cruz
• 
  Puerto Rico Highway 165 between Quebrada Cruz and Quebrada Arenas, looking south

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Quebrada Cruz 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. "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.
7. "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.
8. "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.
9. "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.
10. 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.
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.  162.
13. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
14. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
15. 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
16. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
17. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL TOA ALTA 013" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.