Peña Pobre Explained

Official Name:Peña Pobre
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.2203°N -65.8152°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Naguabo
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:4.38
Area Land Sq Mi:4.38
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:4131
Population Density Sq Mi:943.2
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:413
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Peña Pobre is a barrio in the municipality of Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,131.[2] [3] [4]

History

Peña Pobre 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 Peña Pobre barrio was 1,064.[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.[8] [9]

The following sectors are in Peña Pobre barrio:[10]

Spanish; Castilian: Callejón Mendoza, Parcelas Nuevas, Parcelas Playa, Parcelas Viejas, Sector Centro, Sector Ciénaga, Sector El Molino Rojo, Sector El Pilón, Sector Fanduca, Sector Higüerillo, Sector La Loma, Sector La Suiza, Sector Los Benítez, Sector Mambiche Blanco, Sector Medianía Alta, Sector Medianía, Sector Peña Pobre Abajo, Sector Peña Pobre Arriba, Sector Villa Terapia, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Villa de Monte Cristo.

Hurricane Maria

Peña Pobre was hit especially hard by Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017. Members of Spanish; Castilian: Jesucristo Monte Moriah, a local church, worked with World Central Kitchen and José Andrés to prepare meals. The infrastructure had been destroyed and Puerto Ricans were finding it very difficult to find ingredients for cooking, money for buying food, or gasoline to move around. This community is located up in the mountains accessed through steep, curvy roads which had lost their borders. The community worked to cook and deliver meals to families that could not feed themselves and their families.[11]

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. 163. 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: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
  9. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
  10. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL Naguabo 095 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 1 August 2008 . 27 August 2020 . es . 28 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200828160714/http://168.62.166.179/Informe%20Estadistico/Redist2000/LinkedDocuments/095%20NAGUABO.pdf . live .
  11. Book: Andrés, José. We Fed an Island: the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time. WorldCat . 22 February 2018. 199–203. 1057000234 .