Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Pueblo Viejo is a barrio in the municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 23,816.[2][3][4]

Pueblo Viejo
Barrio
Caparra Archaeological Site in Pueblo Viejo
Location of Pueblo Viejo barrio within the municipality of Guaynabo shown in red
Coordinates: 18°24′51″N 66°06′51″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Guaynabo
Government
 • MayorAngel Pérez Otero
Elevation
75 ft (23 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total23,816
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

History

In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico at Caparra (named after the province of Cáceres, Spain, the birthplace of then-governor of Spain's Caribbean territories Nicolás de Ovando),[5] which today is known as Pueblo Viejo barrio.[6]

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 Pueblo Viejo barrio was 480.[6]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pueblo Viejo
  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. "Guaynabo -- Encyclopædia Britannica" (with history of Puerto Rico),Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006, Britannica.com webpage:EB-Guaynabo-Puerto-Rico:names: Caparra, the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico (1508).
  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. 161.


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