Guzmán Abajo Explained

Official Name:Guzmán Abajo
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.3548°N -65.8449°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Río Grande
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:7.14
Area Land Sq Mi:7.12
Area Water Sq Mi:0.02
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:7367
Population Density Sq Mi:1034.7
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:98
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Guzmán Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,367.[2] [3] [4]

History

Guzmán Abajo 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 population of Guzmán Abajo barrio was 1,378.[6]

Lilium, a small fragrant flower, has been cultivated in Guzmán Abajo for generations.[7]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[8] 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.[9] [10]

The following sectors are in Guzmán Abajo barrio:[11] [12]

Spanish; Castilian: Apartamentos Lomas de Río Grande, Comunidad Bartolo (Sosa), Comunidad Medero, Río Grande Elderly Apartments, Sector Báez, Sector La Vega de Guzmán, Sector Los Quianes, Sector Márquez, Sector Serra, Sector Vista Azul, Urbanización Jardines de Villa Paola, Urbanización Miramelinda, Urbanización Riveras de Río Grande, andSpanish; Castilian: Urbanización Vistas del Mar.

In Guzmán Abajo is the Spanish; Castilian: Bartolo comunidad, and part of the Río Grande urban area.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Gazetteer 2019. 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. 162. es.
  7. Web site: Azucenas en tierra boricua trascienden generaciones . El Nuevo Día . 2017-07-08 . es . 2020-07-19.
  8. 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 .
  9. Web site: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
  10. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
  11. Web site: DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 101 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico . 14 September 2020 . 5 January 2021 . es . 6 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210106010736/https://ww2.ceepur.org/sites/ComisionEE/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/101%20R%C3%8DO%20GRANDE.pdf . live .
  12. Web site: DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 102 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico . 14 September 2020 . 5 January 2021 . es . 6 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210106010720/https://ww2.ceepur.org/sites/ComisionEE/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/102%20R%C3%8DO%20GRANDE.pdf . live .
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310220526/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=05000US72119&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-redoLog=false&-format=CO-2&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_CO2 Río Grande y sus barrios, Censo de los Estados Unidos