Toa Baja barrio-pueblo

Toa Baja barrio-pueblo Pueblo de Toa Baja
Municipality Seat [1]
Parroquia San Pedro Apostol in Toa Baja barrio-pueblo
Location of Toa Baja barrio-pueblo within the municipality of Toa Baja shown in red
Toa Baja barrio-pueblo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°26′32″N66°15′14″W / 18.442348°N 66.253965°W / 18.442348; -66.253965 [2]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Toa Baja
Area [2]
• Total	0.05 sq mi (0.1 km2)
• Land	0.05 sq mi (0.1 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [3]	23 ft (7 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	565
• Density	11,300/sq mi (4,400/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
Area code	787/939

Toa Baja barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Toa Baja, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 565. ^{[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]}

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,300		—
1910	1,759		35.3%
1920	1,559		−11.4%
1930	1,896		21.6%
1940	2,015		6.3%
1950	1,824		−9.5%
1960	1,084		−40.6%
1980	892		—
1990	1,099		23.2%
2000	722		−34.3%
2010	565		−21.7%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [9] 1910-1930 [10] 1930-1950 [11] 1980-2000 [12] 2010 [13]

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza, or square, located in Toa Baja barrio-pueblo 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 the central plaza in Toa Baja barrio-pueblo is the Parroquia San Pedro Apostol, a Roman Catholic church. ^[14] A historic and important church, it is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.

History

Toa Baja barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers ^[15] 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 Toa Baja Pueblo was 1,300. ^[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]}

The following sectors are in Toa Baja barrio-pueblo: ^[20]

Residencial Ángel E. Melecio, Residencial El Toa, Urbanización Rochdale, Urbanización San Pedro, and Urbanización Toa Ville.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Toa Baja, 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: Toa Baja 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.
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14. 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). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
15. "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.
16. 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.
17. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
18. 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
19. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
20. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL TOA BAJA 014" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 20 July 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.