Asomante, Aguada, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Asomante
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.384°N -67.1723°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Aguada
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:1.834
Area Land Sq Mi:1.834
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:3177
Population Density Sq Mi:1736.1
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:52
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code
Postal Code:00602
Area Code:787, 939

Asomante is a barrio in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,177.[2] [3] [4]

History

Asomante was in Spain's gazetteers[5] 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 combined population of Asomante barrio and Piedras Blancas barrio was 1,162.[6]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[7] 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.

The following sectors are in Asomante barrio:[8]

Spanish; Castilian: Apartamentos Portales del Navegante, Avenida Rotario, Carretera 416 (west side), Carretera 417 Norte, Carretera 417 Sur, Égida Hogar Mi Casita Feliz, Hogar María del Carmen, Parcelas Las Minas, Reparto Bonet, Residencial Aguada Gardens, Residencial Los Almendros, Sector Acevedo, Sector Brisas de Coloso, Sector Colinas del Valle, Sector Corozas, Sector Cuesta Los Chicharrones, Sector Las Guabas, Sector Los Quiñones, Sector Muñiz, Sector Vargas, Sector Vertedero, Sector Villa Alameda, Sector Villarrubia, Urbanización Los Flamboyanes, Urbanización San Francisco, Urbanización y Extensión Jardines de Aguada, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización y Extensión San José.

In Asomante barrio is part of the Aguada urban zone.

Earthquakes

During the 2019-2020 Puerto Rico earthquakes the Lydia Meléndez School in Asomante served as a refuge for residents from Cerro Gordo, Las Marías and Atalaya (nearby barrios) who had to leave their damaged homes.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Gazetteer . US Census . US Government.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Book: Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf . 2010. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau.
  5. 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.
  6. 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. 160. es.
  7. 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 .
  8. Web site: DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - AGUADA 038. Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico. 28 October 2019. 16 June 2020. es. 16 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200616024418/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/038%20AGUADA.pdf. dead.
  9. News: Estos son los daños e incidentes reportados en cada pueblo tras el poderoso terremoto de 6.4 [These are the damages and incidents reported in each town after the strong 6.4 earthquake]]. El Nuevo Dia . 7 January 2020 . es . 23 June 2020.