Río Abajo, Utuado, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Río Abajo
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.3165°N -66.6933°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Utuado
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:2.31
Area Land Sq Mi:2.30
Area Water Sq Mi:0.01
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:237
Population Density Sq Mi:103
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:1070
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Río Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 237.[2] [3] [4] It is an isolated, rural barrio in the Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico), the mountain range that goes east to west across the center of Puerto Rico.

History

Río 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 Río Abajo barrio was 1,235.[6]

Hurricane Maria which struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, washed away the Río Abajo bridge and approximately 60 families were left isolated. Residents invented a zip line to bring food across until a temporary bridge was built.[7] The construction of a permanent bridge was completed in March 2018.[8] [9] [10]

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. . 1969 . 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. 161. es.
  7. Web site: Nearly 40 days after Hurricane Maria, one neighborhood in Puerto Rico's central mountains is still stranded Miami Herald. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171030181656/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article181586296.html. 2017-10-30.
  8. Web site: Hurricane Maria: How rural Utuado, Puerto Rico, survived isolated after the storm. September 20, 2018. ABC7 San Francisco.
  9. Web site: Rio Abajo Bridge in Utuado, One Year After Hurricane Maria. Laura. Perdomo. December 7, 2018. U.S. Bridge.
  10. Web site: Arrival of Critical Equipment Kicks Off Construction of New Rio Abajo Bridge | FEMA.gov. www.fema.gov.

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