Guayabota

Guayabota is a barrio in the municipality of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,124.[3][4][5]

Guayabota
Barrio
Location of Guayabota within the municipality of Yabucoa shown in red
Guayabota
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°04′18″N 65°58′07″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Yabucoa
Area
 • Total10.57 sq mi (27.4 km2)
 • Land10.57 sq mi (27.4 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation1,024 ft (312 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,124
 • Density295.6/sq mi (114.1/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

History

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Guayabota barrio was 904.[6]

Geography

The area is prone to landslides and its infrastructure and bridges have often been destroyed by hurricanes, and even by heavy rainfall. Puerto Rico Highway 182 goes through this barrio and its sectors.[7][8] [9]

Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 19, 2017, knocking out power to the entire island (and also affected access to clean water). Many older residents of Yabucoa died as a result of Hurricane Maria. The mayor of Yabucoa, Rafael Surillo, stated on June 12, 2018 (nine months after the hurricane) that large swaths of Yabucoa municipality barrios Guayabota, Tejas, Juan Martín, Calabazas, Limones y Aguacate, and 100% of barrio Jácanas were still without electrical power.[10] In 2018, the people of Guayabota hoped to develop emergency plans and sustainable community plans to help them be prepared in the case of a future emergency, such as happened with Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria.[11]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[12] 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.[13][14][15]

The following sectors are in Guayabota barrio:[16]

Camino Doña Zaza, Sector El Cruce, Sector El Veinte, Sector La Aldea, Sector La Coa, Sector La Herradura, Sector Las Panas, Sector Los Sánchez, Sector Quebrada Grande, Sector Quebradillas, Sector Surillo, and Sector Tres Puntos.

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See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Guayabota barrio
  3. 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.
  4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  6. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 164.
  7. "Municipio de Yabucoa atiende llamado de familia en Guayabota". Periódico El Oriental (in Spanish). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. "Atienden deslizamientos e inundaciones en Yabucoa". Periódico El Oriental (in Spanish). 24 May 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. "Familias en riesgo de quedarse incomunicadas en Yabucoa". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 24 September 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  10. "YABUCOA: Enfermos y viejos sin servicio eléctrico". Periodísmo Investigativo (in Spanish). CPI.
  11. "Guayabota apuesta al desarrollo sostenible como plan de emergencia". Victoria840 (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  12. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  13. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  14. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
  15. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  16. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL YABUCOA 093" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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