Vacas, Villalba, Puerto Rico

Vacas
Barrio
Location of Vacas within the municipality of Villalba shown in red
Vacas Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°09′12″N66°28′35″W / 18.153348°N 66.476268°W / 18.153348; -66.476268 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Villalba
Area [1]
• Total	4.7 sq mi (12 km2)
• Land	4.7 sq mi (12 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	2,100 ft (600 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	4,049
• Density	861.5/sq mi (332.6/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Vacas is a barrio in the municipality of Villalba, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,049. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

The barrio was in Spain's gazetteers ^[6] 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 Vacas barrio was 1,841. ^[7]

During the 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes, three giant rocks ended up coming loose, rolling down a mountain and onto a home and crushed a car, in Vacas barrio. ^[8]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,841		—
1910	1,801		−2.2%
1920	1,963		9.0%
1930	1,755		−10.6%
1940	1,849		5.4%
1950	2,119		14.6%
1960	2,158		1.8%
1980	1,977		—
1990	1,956		−1.1%
2000	3,196		63.4%
2010	4,049		26.7%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [9] 1910-1930 [10] 1930-1950 [11] 1980-2000 [12] 2010 [13]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[14] 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. ^{[15] [16] [17]}

The following sectors are in Vacas barrio: ^[18]

Carretera 561, El Mayoral Apartments, La Pulga, Sector Hacienda El Mayoral, Sector La Sierra, Sector Mogote (El Frío, El Bolo, El Cucurucho), Sector Vacas, (El Tamarindo, El Parque, El Negocio Chiripo, El Llano), Sector Vista Alegre, Urbanización Estancias del Mayoral II, Urbanización Estancias del Mayoral, Urbanización Luceros de Villalba, and Urbanización Vista Alegre.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

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

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Vacas 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. "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.
7. 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.  165.
8. "Rocas gigantes caen sobre casa y vehículo en Villalba". Voces del Sur (in Spanish). 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
9. "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.
10. "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.
11. "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.
12. "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.
13. 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.
14. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
15. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
16. 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
17. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
18. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL VILLALBA 065" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.