Yahuecas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Yahuecas
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.1985°N -66.796°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Adjuntas
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:4.76
Area Land Sq Mi:4.76
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:1396
Population Density Sq Mi:293.3
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:1598
Postal Code Type:ZIP Codes

Yahuecas is a rural barrio in the municipality of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.[2] [3] The population of Yahuecas in 2010 was 1396.[4]

History

Yahuecas 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 Yahuecas barrio was 1,710.[6]

Special Community

Since 2001 when law 1-2001 was passed,[7] measures have been taken to identify and address the high levels of poverty and lack of resources and opportunities affecting specific communities in Puerto Rico. Initially there were 686 places that made the list.[8] By 2008, there were 742 places on the list of Spanish; Castilian: Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico. The places on the list are barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods and Yahuecas was one of the seven areas in Adjuntas that made the list of Special Community.[8]

In August 2020, the United States released Federal Emergency Management Agency funds in support of the coffee industry, directly benefitting a coffee packaging plant in Yahuecas barrio. The funds were in response to millions of dollars lost by the agricultural industry of Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria hit the commonwealth on September 20, 2017.[9]

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. 165. es.
  7. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2019.
  8. Web site: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico. 8 August 2011. es. 24 June 2019.
  9. Web site: FEMA libera $2.6 millones para invertir en la agricultura local . Villalba Online . 2020-08-26 . es . 2021-01-04.