Villalba barrio-pueblo

Villalba barrio-pueblo Pueblo de Villalba
Municipality Seat[1]
Walter Mck Jones School in Villalba barrio-pueblo
Location of Villalba barrio-pueblo within the municipality of Villalba shown in red
Villalba barrio-pueblo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°07′43″N 66°29′33″W[2]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Villalba
Area [2]
• Total	0.15 sq mi (0.4 km^2)
• Land	0.15 sq mi (0.4 km^2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km^2)
Elevation [3]	528 ft (161 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	729
• Density	4,860/sq mi (1,880/km^2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Villalba barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Villalba, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 729.^[1][4][5][6]

As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church. Fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals) are held in the central plaza every year.^[7][8]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1920	626		—
1940	834		—
1950	1,499		79.7%
1960	1,892		26.2%
1970	0		−100.0%
1980	1,666		—
1990	1,108		−33.5%
2000	1,040		−6.1%
2010	729		−29.9%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900)[9] 1910-1930[10] 1930-1950[11] 1980-2000[12] 2010[13]

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza in Villalba barrio-pueblo is named Plaza de Recreo José Ramón Figueroa, after one of the town founders.^[14] The central plaza, or square, is a place for official and unofficial recreational events and a place where people can gather and socialize from dusk to dawn. The Laws of the Indies, Spanish law, which regulated life in Puerto Rico in the early 19th century, stated the plaza's purpose was for "the parties" (celebrations, festivities) (Spanish: a propósito para las fiestas), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors (Spanish: grandeza proporcionada al número de vecinos). These Spanish regulations also stated that the streets nearby should be comfortable portals for passersby, protecting them from the elements: sun and rain.^[7]

Located across the central plaza in Villalba barrio-pueblo is the Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Carmen, a Roman Catholic church.^[14]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[6] 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.^[15][16][17]

The following sectors are in Villalba barrio-pueblo:^[18]

Barriada Cooperativa, Barriada Nueva, Calle Barceló, Calle Figueroa, Calle Luchetti, Calle Muñoz Rivera, Calle Sharton, Calle Vencebil, Calle Walter Mck Jones, Carretera 149, El Coquí, Hogar San Cristobal, Sector Barrio Chino, Sector Palmarejo (El Matadero, El Puente, El Maguey), and Urbanización Villa Alba.

See also

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Villalba, Puerto Rico

References

1. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
2. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Villalba barrio-pueblo
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
7. Santullano, Luis A. (10 March 2019). "La Plaza y la Calle". Mirada al Caribe. Vol. 54. Colegio de Mexico. pp. 75–78. doi:10.2307/j.ctvbcd2vs.12. JSTOR j.ctvbcd2vs.12.
8. Pariser, Harry S. (2003). Explore Puerto Rico, Fifth Edition. San Francisco: Manatee Press. pp. 52–55. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
9. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
10. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
11. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
12. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
13. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
14. Mari Mut, José A. (2013-08-28). Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
15. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
16. 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
17. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
18. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL VILLALBA 065" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.