Pasto, Coamo, Puerto Rico

Pasto is a barrio in the municipality of Coamo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,540.[3][4][5]

Pasto
Barrio
The house of Florencio Santiago in Coamo
Location of Pasto within the municipality of Coamo shown in red
Pasto
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°07′14″N 66°20′59″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Coamo
Area
  Total13.46 sq mi (34.9 km2)
  Land13.46 sq mi (34.9 km2)
  Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation781 ft (238 m)
Population
 (2010)
  Total5,540
  Density411.6/sq mi (158.9/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 Pasto barrio was 1,272.[6]

Florencio Santiago

Florencio Santiago, born in 1855, was from Pasto. He was a philanthropist who studied at Boston University and donated most of his patrimony, which was used for the building of many structures in Coamo, including the central plaza in Coamo barrio-pueblo.[7]

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See also

References

  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pasto 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. 165.
  7. http://www.angelfire.com/blog/florenciosantiago/Biograf_FS.pdf


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