Damián Abajo

Damián Abajo
Barrio
Bauta River between Damián Abajo and Pellejas barrios
Location of Damián Abajo within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Damián Abajo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°14′21″N 66°28′02″W[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area [1]
• Total	2.7 sq mi (7 km^2)
• Land	2.7 sq mi (7 km^2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km^2)
Elevation [2]	1,217 ft (371 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	754
• Density	279.3/sq mi (107.8/km^2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Damián Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 754.[3][4][5]

Sectors

Further information: List of barrios and sectors of Orocovis, Puerto Rico

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.[7][8][9][10][11]

The following sectors are in Damián Abajo barrio:[12]

Sector Área Recreativa, Sector Camilo Meléndez, Sector Canta Sapo, Sector Culebras, Sector El Granillín, Sector El Puente, Sector El Verde, Sector Gregorio, Sector La Escuela, Sector La Frontera, Sector La Hacienda, Sector La Luna, Sector Las Palmas, Sector Los Muros, Sector Meseta, Sector Palma Gorda, Sector Pedro Morales, Sector Román Díaz, Sector Taita, and Sector Vitín Medina.

History

Damián Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers[13] 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 Damián Abajo barrio was 922.[14]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	922		—
1910	798		−13.4%
1920	931		16.7%
1930	900		−3.3%
1940	877		−2.6%
1950	815		−7.1%
1960	778		−4.5%
1970	622		−20.1%
1980	558		−10.3%
1990	613		9.9%
2000	746		21.7%
2010	754		1.1%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900)[15] 1910-1930[16] 1930-1950[17] 1980-2000[18] 2010[19]

See also

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Damián Abajo 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. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
7. Mari Mut, José A. (28 August 2013). "Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2020 – via archive.org.
8. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
9. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza : Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (Primera edición ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
10. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
11. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL Orocovis 066" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). Junta de Planificación - Gobierno de Puerto Rico. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
13. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
14. 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.
15. "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.
16. "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.
17. "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.
18. "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.
19. 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.