Timoteo Luberza Explained

Timoteo Luberza de San Martín
Birth Date:c. 1820
Birth Place:Ponce, Puerto Rico
Death Date:c. 1895
Death Place:Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality:Puerto Rican
Known For:Civil Engineering, Architecture
Notable Works:Plaza del Mercado de Ponce,
Aqueducts,
Bridges,
Roads,
various other buildings.

Timoteo Luberza[1] de San Martín (ca. 1820 - ca. 1895) was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican engineer from Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was responsible for the 1875 Ponce water supply system, including the dam in Rio Portugues, and the Calle del Agua masonry arch aqueduct in barrio Portugues Urbano in Ponce. In 1864, he served briefly as mayor of the nearby town of Yauco.[2] He is best remembered for designing Plaza del Mercado de Ponce.[3]

Works

Luberza was Public Works Inspecting Engineer for Puerto Rico's Western District.[4] Luberza also designed aqueducts, bridges, roads, and various buildings. In 1878, he owned hacienda Retiro in Barrio Vayas.[5]

Ponce-Juana Diaz and Coamo-Aibonito roads

In 1858, he designed the road from Ponce to Juana Diaz and, in 1861, the road from Coamo to Aibonito, parts of the Carretera Central.[6] [7]

Plaza del Mercado de Ponce

In the early 1860s, Luberza designed Ponce's Plaza del Mercado Isabel II (Market place).[8] The marketplace opened in 1863 under the mayoral administration of Luis de Quixano.[9] Its design was a reduced model of the Paris Marketplace.[10]

Bridge Number 173

With a budget of 15,405 Spanish pesos, he also designed Bridge Number 173 over Río Las Minas in barrio San Idelfonso, Coamo, Puerto Rico. It was completed in 1862, and rebuilt in 1898 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, after being partly destroyed by the Spanish to keep the American invaders from advancing north towards San Juan at the Battle of Asomante. Bridge 173 is 6.7 meters long. It is on the road between Coamo and Juana Díaz, at kilometer 30.4 of PR-14, and it is the only original and still standing bridge on the southern section of the Carretera Central.[11]

Ponce aqueduct

Luberza designed the Ponce aqueduct system, called "Acueducto Alfonso XII".[12] It was 4100m (13,500feet) long.[13] Construction of the aqueduct started on 21 August 1876.[14] The 1876 cost was $220,000 U.S. dollars. It became operational in that year.[15] It was completed in 1880 and it operated for 48 years—until 1928.[16] At its highest point the aqueduct rose 50 feet high.[17] It was made possible by a generous 54,000 Spanish pesos[18] donation from Valentin Tricoche, who also left in his will moneys for the construction of a hospital, Hospital Tricoche.[19]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Sometimes spelled "Lubelza". See, Eli D. Oquendo-Rodriguez. Pablo L. Crespo-Vargas, editor. A Orillas del Mar Caribe: Boceto historico de la Playa de Ponce - Desde sus primeros habitantes hasta principios del siglo XX. First edition. June, 2017. Editorial Akelarre. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Sur Oeste de Puerto Rico (CEISCO). Lajas, Puerto Rico. Page 58.
  2. http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09050501&page=3 Municipalities / Yauco: Mayors.
  3. http://www.travelponce.com/Plaza-del-Mercado.html Plaza del Mercado.
  4. Eli D. Oquendo-Rodriguez. Pablo L. Crespo-Vargas, editor. A Orillas del Mar Caribe: Boceto historico de la Playa de Ponce - Desde sus primeros habitantes hasta principios del siglo XX. First edition. June, 2017. Editorial Akelarre. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Sur Oeste de Puerto Rico (CEISCO). Lajas, Puerto Rico. Page 58.
  5. Eli D. Oquendo-Rodriguez. Pablo L. Crespo-Vargas, editor. A Orillas del Mar Caribe: Boceto historico de la Playa de Ponce - Desde sus primeros habitantes hasta principios del siglo XX. First edition. June, 2017. Editorial Akelarre. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Sur Oeste de Puerto Rico (CEISCO). Lajas, Puerto Rico. Page 58.
  6. http://coamo.net/colonia.html Colonia Española (Cronología).
  7. Luis F. Pumarada O'Neill. U.S. National Park Service. p. 7 and p. 11. 31 July 1994.
  8. http://www.travelponce.com/Plaza-del-Mercado.html Plaza del Mercado. Travel Ponce.
  9. http://www.travelponce.com/Plaza-del-Mercado.html Plaza del Mercado.
  10. http://www.wapa.tv/noticias.php?nid=3828 Inauguran plaza del mercado de Ponce. WAPA-TV.
  11. http://www.dtop.gov.pr/act/PuentesHistoricos/PteArco.htm PR Department of Transportation
  12. Sala Panoramica. Seccion de Estructuras Emblematicas. Museo de la Historia de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. March 2011.
  13. http://www.escolar.com/Enciclopedia/TomoXVII/Tomo-XVII-Pag-97.html Diccionario Encyclopedico.
  14. https://books.google.com/books?id=rzyA0BhHHCIC&pg=PA187 Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce.
  15. https://books.google.com/books?id=ho8sAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA80 Annual report of the Secretary of War. United States War Department. 1915. Vol III. Page 80.
  16. Neysa Rodriguez Deynes. Breviario sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interes. 1st edition. 1991. Page 170. San Juan, PR: Model Offset Printing.
  17. Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, et al., Brevario sobre la historia de Ponce y sus principales lugares de interes. 1991. Museo de la Historia de Ponce. Secretaria de Arte y Cultura. Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. p. 170.
  18. http://www.escolar.com/Enciclopedia/TomoXVII/Tomo-XVII-Pag-98.html Diccionario Encyclopedico.
  19. http://www.oslpr.org/download/en/2003/0078.pdf AN ACT To declare November 15 of each year as “Philanthropy Day,” to acknowledge and promote valuable and generous philanthropic action of citizens on behalf of the People of Puerto Rico.

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