Vaga, Morovis, Puerto Rico

Vaga
Barrio
View of Puerto Rico Highway 567 in Vaga
Location of Vaga within the municipality of Morovis shown in red
Vaga Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°16′37″N66°27′03″W / 18.276936°N 66.450941°W / 18.276936; -66.450941 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Morovis
Area [1]
• Total	3.38 sq mi (8.8 km2)
• Land	3.38 sq mi (8.8 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	1,339 ft (408 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	471
• Density	139.3/sq mi (53.8/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
Zip code	00687

Vaga is a barrio in the municipality of Morovis, Puerto Rico. Vaga has three sectors and its population in 2010 was 471. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

Vaga 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 Vaga barrio was 828. ^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	828		—
1910	786		−5.1%
1920	900		14.5%
1930	865		−3.9%
1940	940		8.7%
1950	1,043		11.0%
1960	646		−38.1%
1970	656		1.5%
1980	721		9.9%
1990	433		−39.9%
2000	648		49.7%
2010	471		−27.3%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [8] 1910-1930 [9] 1930-1950 [10] 1980-2000 [11] 2010 [12]

Geography

Vaga is located on the southwestern corner of the municipality of Morovis. It is south of San Lorenzo barrio and west of Pasto barrio. Vaga's western border is with the municipality of Ciales.

• 
  Barrios of Morovis

Sectors

Further information: List of barrios and sectors of Morovis, Puerto Rico

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 Vaga barrio: ^[17]

Sector Vaga, Sector Vaga 1, and Sector Vaga 3.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Vaga 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.  161.
8. "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.
9. "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.
10. "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.
11. "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.
12. 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.
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 MOROVIS 020" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Vaga at Wikimedia Commons