Guayama barrio-pueblo explained

Official Name:Guayama barrio-pueblo
Native Name:Pueblo de Guayama
Native Name Lang:es
Settlement Type:Municipality Seat
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:17.9767°N -66.1142°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Guayama
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:2.47
Area Land Sq Mi:2.46
Area Water Sq Mi:0.01
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:16891
Population Density Sq Mi:6866.3
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:128
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code
Postal Code:00784

Guayama barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Guayama, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 16,891.[2] [3] [4] [5]

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.[6] The historic downtown area (pueblo) of Guayama was added to the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) in 1992.[7]

History

Guayama barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers[8] 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 Guayama Pueblo was 5,334.[9]

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza (Spanish; Castilian: plaza de recreo) 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 "parties" (celebrations, festivities, festivals) (Spanish; Castilian: "a propósito para las fiestas"), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors (Spanish; Castilian: "grandeza proporcionada al número de vecinos"). These Spanish regulations also stated that nearby streets should be comfortable portals for passersby, protecting them from the elements: sun and rain.[10]

The Guayama patron saint festival, in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua, is celebrated at the Spanish; Castilian: Plaza de recreo Cristóbal Colón in Guayama barrio-pueblo every June.

Located across from the central plaza in Guayama barrio-pueblo is Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua, or the Spanish; Castilian: Parroquia San Antonio de Padua (English: Anthony of Padua Parish), a Roman Catholic church. A hermitage built in the area was in ruins by 1823. The first church after that was inaugurated in 1872. Parts of the church were destroyed by the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane. In the 1920s the church underwent reconstruction.[11]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Gazetteer 2019. US Census . US Government.
  2. Book: Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf . 2010. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau.
  3. Book: 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. Book: Gwillim Law. Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. 25 December 2018. 20 May 2015. McFarland. 978-1-4766-0447-3. 300.
  5. Web site: US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition . factfinder.com . US Census . 5 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170513190743/https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm . 13 May 2017 . dead .
  6. Book: Pariser . Harry S. . Explore Puerto Rico, Fifth Edition . 2003 . San Francisco: Manatee Press . 52–55 . 10 February 2019.
  7. Web site: GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO . JUNTA DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO . December 7, 2022 . REGISTRO DE PROPIEDADES DESIGNADAS POR LA JUNTA DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO . jp.pr.gov.
  8. Web site: Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881 . Biblioteca Nacional de España . es . 1614. 4 April 2023.
  9. Book: Joseph Prentiss Sanger. Henry Gannett. Walter Francis Willcox. Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office. 1900. Imprenta del gobierno. 163. es.
  10. Book: Santullano, Luis A.. j.ctvbcd2vs.12. Mirada al Caribe. 10 March 2019. Colegio de Mexico. 54. 75–78. 10.2307/j.ctvbcd2vs.12.
  11. Book: Mari Mut, José A. . Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas] ]. 2013-08-28 . es . 30–32 . 2021-03-20 . 2020-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201214203116/http://edicionesdigitales.info/PueblosPR/pueblospr.pdf . live .