Dorado barrio-pueblo explained

Official Name:Dorado barrio-pueblo
Native Name:Pueblo de Dorado
Native Name Lang:es
Settlement Type:Municipality seat
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Coordinates:18.4593°N -66.2614°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Dorado
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:0.07
Area Land Sq Mi:0.07
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2000 Census
Population Total:780
Population Density Sq Mi:11142.9
Elevation Ft:52
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code
Postal Code:00646

Dorado barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Dorado, a municipality in Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 780.[2] [3] [4] [5] It is one of the six barrios in the municipality of Dorado, Puerto Rico, along with Espinosa, Higuillar, Maguayo, Mameyal and Río Lajas.[6]

As was customary in Spain, the municipality in Puerto Rico 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]

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza, or square, 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; Castilian: a propósito para las fiestas), and it was required to be proportionally large enough for the local population. (Spanish; Castilian: 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.[8]

Located across the central plaza in Dorado barrio-pueblo is the Spanish; Castilian: Parroquia San Antonio de Padua (English: Church San Antonio de Padua of Dorado),[9] named after Portuguese Catholic priest Saint Anthony of Padua. The church was built from 1826 throughout July 1848.[10]

History

Dorado barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers[11] 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 Dorado Pueblo was 937.[12]

In July 2020, Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriated funds for repairs to Dorado's plaza.[13]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[5] 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]

The following sectors are in Dorado barrio-pueblo:[16]

Spanish; Castilian: Barriada San Antonio, Residencial Manuel Morales, Sector Finca Santa Bárbara, Sector Juan Francisco, Sector La Julia, Sector Mameyal Playa (stretch of [[Puerto Rico Highway 165|PR-165]]), Urbanización Brisas de Plata (before Villa Caíto), Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Jardines de Dorado, Urbanización Martorell, andSpanish; Castilian: Urbanización Sabanera Dorado.

In Dorado barrio-pueblo is part of the Dorado urban zone.

Gallery

Places in Dorado barrio-pueblo:

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. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-53-eng.pdf Puerto Rico 2000: Population and Housing Unit Counts
  7. Book: Pariser . Harry S. . Explore Puerto Rico, Fifth Edition . 2003 . San Francisco: Manatee Press . 52–55 . registration . 10 February 2019.
  8. Book: Santullano, Luis A.. j.ctvbcd2vs.12. Mirada al Caribe. 10 March 2019. Colegio de Mexico. 54. 75–78. 10.2307/j.ctvbcd2vs.12.
  9. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64000741}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Thematic Nomination: Historic Churches of Puerto Rico]. National Park Service. June 5, 2023. Marisa Gomez and Ester Cardona . July 1984.
  10. 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 . 85–87 . 2021-08-15 . 2020-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201214203116/http://edicionesdigitales.info/PueblosPR/pueblospr.pdf . live .
  11. 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.
  12. 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. 161. es.
  13. Web site: FEMA Approves Funds to Repair PR Town Squares . Hudson Valley Press . 2020-07-08 . 2021-09-23.
  14. Web site: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
  15. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
  16. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL DORADO 015 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 4 May 2020 . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20161109113503/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/015%20DORADO.pdf. 9 November 2016. live.