Bartolo, Lares, Puerto Rico

Bartolo is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,035.[2][3][4] Bartolo is on the southeastern border of Lares and Adjuntas.

Bartolo
Barrio
Bartolo
Coordinates: 18°12′00″N 66°50′57″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Lares
Elevation
1,818 ft (554 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total2,035
 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 US conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, finding that the population of Bartolo barrio was 2,035.[5]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like 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 Bartolo: Calle Cirila, Calle Cooperativismo, Calle Los Millonarios, Calle Paraíso, Carretera Los Romero, Carretera Vilella, Cerro Las Avispas, Condominio Alturas de Castañer, Poblado Castañer, Sector Calbache, Sector Grillasca, Sector Guano, Sector La Cuesta, Sector Rábanos, Sector Regino, Sector San Juan Bautista, Tramo Carretera 128, Tramo Carretera 135, and Tramo Carretera 431.[12]

Jíbaros Mutual Support Center

The Manuel Rojas Luzardo, a school that was built in 1922 was closed in 2015 by the Puerto Rico Department of Education. A group of residents, who farm the land (jíbaros), rehabilitated the school and put it to use, after they were left homeless when their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The group received support from a number of businesses including a donation of solar panels. With their work, the once abandoned school is now called the Jíbaros Mutual Support Center (Spanish: Centro de Apoyo Mutuo Jíbaro), and the classrooms serve as residences to eleven families (to families with a woman head of household and to elderly). There are micro-businesses, including a theater, operating from the location. Members of the local Presbyterian church who spearheaded the grassroots movement for Bartolo are pursuing official ownership of the property.[13][14] Similar Mutual Support Centers have popped up around the island.[15][16]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bartolo Barrio
  2. 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. 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.
  4. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  5. 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. 160.
  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). 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). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  11. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL LARES 053" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  13. "Una comunidad en Lares encuentra esperanza en escuela abandonada [A community in Lares finds hope in an abandoned school]". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 28 April 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  14. "Centro de Apoyo Mutuo - Jíbaro". MaríaFund.
  15. "This is Caguas: "Centro de Apoyo Mutuo"". It's Going Down. November 26, 2017.
  16. "Puerto Rico. Declaración de la Jornada Nacional de la lucha por la Tierra: «Se acabaron las promesas»". resumenlatinoamericano.org (in Spanish). 28 April 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
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