Sexto, Ponce, Puerto Rico

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Sexto
Cantera
Barrio
Calle Mayor Cantera (PR-503), en Barrio Sexto, en Ponce, PR, mirando hacia el norte (IMG 3684).jpg
Daily life captured at Calle Mayor Cantera street in Barrio Sexto, in the Ponce Historic Zone, Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Location of barrio Sexto within the municipality of Ponce shown in red
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Sexto
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°01′17″N66°36′42″W / 18.02135°N 66.611646°W / 18.02135; -66.611646 [1]
Commonwealth Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Municipality Bandera de Ponce, Puerto Rico.svg Ponce
Area
[1]
 • Total0.27 sq mi (0.7 km2)
 • Land0.27 sq mi (0.7 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
[2]
75 ft (23 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,529
 • Density13,573.1/sq mi (5,240.6/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zone UTC−4 (AST)

Sexto (Barrio Sexto) is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, and Quinto, Sexto is one of the municipality's six core urban barrios. Barrio Sexto used to be called Barrio Cantera. [3] It was organized in 1878. [4]

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Location

Sexto is an urban barrio located in the southern section of the municipality, within the Ponce city limits, and north of the traditional center of the city, Plaza Las Delicias. The former name of barrio Sexto (Sixth) was barrio Cantera (Quarry) because there was a stone quarry in that region. [5] At 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) northeast of Plaza Las Delicias were located the "Baños Termales de Quintana" (Quintana Thermal Baths) [note 1] as well as a quarry of white stone in this area. [6]

Boundaries

Barrio Sexto is bounded on the North by Cayey Street, on the South by Guadalupe Street, on the West by Atocha Street, and on the East by Rio Portugues. [7]

In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Sexto is bounded in the North by Portugués Urbano and Machuelo Abajo, in the South by Quinto, in the West by Segundo and Portugués Urbano, and in the East by Machuelo Abajo.

The former Spanish Military Hospital in Barrio Sexto. Antiguo Hospital Militar Espanol de Ponce.jpg
The former Spanish Military Hospital in Barrio Sexto.

Features and demographics

Sexto has 0.1 square miles (260,000 m2) of land area and no water area. In 2000, the population of Sexto was 4,745. The population density in Sexto was 18,222 persons per square mile. [8]

In 2010, the population of Sexto was 3,529 persons, and it had a density of 13,573.1 persons per square mile. [9]

The communities of La Cantera, Hoyo de Pepe, El Yeso, and Pueblito Nuevo are found here.

Notable landmarks

Barrio Sexto is home to the NRHP-listed old Spanish Military Hospital.

Notable people from Sexto

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Quintana Baths were destroyed in the last decades of the 20th century to channelize Río Portugués as well as to build the PR-10 road from Ponce to Adjuntas. (See The Quintana Medical Baths, Near Ponce, Porto Rico. Las fotos de Puerto Rico en 'Our Islands and Their People'. Jose A. Mari Mut. 2013. Vol II, page 392. (Digital version page 132.)

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References

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  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sexto barrio
  3. ↑ Antepasados Esclavos. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Barrios de Ponce. Antepasados Esclavos.(From: Pedro Tomás de Córdoba. Memorias geográficas, históricas, económicas y estadísticas de la Isla de Puerto Rico.) Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Eduardo Questell Rodriguez. Historia de la Comunidad Bélgica de Ponce: A partir de la Hacienda Muñiz y otros datos. Ponce: Puerto Rico: Mariana Editores. 2018. ISBN   978-1-935892-04-5. Page 11.
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