Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Pueblo Viejo is a barrio in the municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 23,816.^[3][4][5]

Pueblo Viejo
Barrio
Storm clouds over condos in Pueblo Viejo barrio
Location of Pueblo Viejo within the municipality of Guaynabo shown in red
Pueblo Viejo Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°24′49″N 66°06′49″W / 18.413688°N 66.113591°W / 18.413688; -66.113591^[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Guaynabo
Area ^[1]
• Total	4.76 sq mi (12.3 km^2)
• Land	4.63 sq mi (12.0 km^2)
• Water	0.13 sq mi (0.3 km^2)
Elevation ^[2]	75 ft (23 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	23,816
• Density	5,143.8/sq mi (1,986.0/km^2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−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),^[6] which today is known as Pueblo Viejo barrio.^[7]

Pueblo Viejo was in Spain's gazetteers^[8] 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 Pueblo Viejo barrio was 480.^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	480		—
1910	741		54.4%
1920	1,687		127.7%
1930	3,564		111.3%
1940	5,813		63.1%
1950	13,956		140.1%
1960	19,266		38.0%
1970	0		−100.0%
1980	38,930		—
1990	27,744		−28.7%
2000	26,109		−5.9%
2010	23,816		−8.8%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900)^[9] 1910-1930^[10] 1930-1950^[11] 1980-2000^[12] 2010^[13]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[14] 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 Pueblo Viejo barrio:^[18][19]

Apartamentos Gallardo, Barriada San Miguel, Barriada Vietnam, Barrio Juan Domingo, Barrio Sabana, Buchanan, Calle Emilia, Calle Flamboyán, Calle Pedro Pedroza, Calle San Miguel, Calle Wilson, Callejón Caridad, Comunidad Amelia, Condominios Acgualina, Condominios Amarillys, Condominios Arcos de Suchville, Condominios Art At San Patricio, Condominios Asizi, Condominios Bel-Air, Condominios Belén, Condominios Caparra Chalets, Condominios Caparra Classic, Condominios Caparra Hills Tower, Condominios Caparra Hills Village, Condominios Caparra Real, Condominios Casa Magna Court, Condominios Chalets de Caparra, Condominios Ciudad Condor, Condominios Colonial Court, Condominios Doral Plaza, Condominios El Cordovés, Condominios El Jardín, Condominios El Laurel, Condominios Garden Court, Condominios Garden Hills Chalets, Condominios Garden Hills Plaza I, Condominios Garden Hills Plaza II, Condominios Garden Hills Tower, Condominios Garden Hills Town Park, Condominios Garden Hills Villas, Condominios Garden Village, Condominios Gardenville, Condominios Generalife, Condominios IL’Villagio, Condominios L’Hermitage, Condominios Los Caobos Plaza, Condominios Los Patricios, Condominios Luis Muñoz Marín, Condominios Madre Selva, Condominios Mansiones de Garden Hills I y II, Condominios Mansiones Los Caobos, Condominios Meadows Towers, Condominios Milan Court, Condominios Miradores de Sabana, Condominios Novas Court Town Houses, Condominios Palm Circle, Condominios Park Royal, Condominios Parkside, Condominios Parque de Villa Caparra, Condominios Parque San Patricio I y II, Condominios Pisos de Caparra, Condominios Plaza Athenne, Condominios Plaza Real Caparra, Condominios Ponce de León, Condominios Portales de San Patricio, Condominios Porto Fino, Condominios Saint Morritz, Condominios San Patricio Apartamentos, Condominios San Patricio Chalets, Condominios San Patricio I y II, Condominios San Patricio Meadows, Condominios Santa Ana, Condominios Suchville Park, Condominios The Village At Suchville, Condominios The Village, Condominios Torres de Caparra, Condominios Town Houses Villa Caparra, Condominios Vía Caparra, Condominios Villa Caparra Court, Condominios Villa Caparra Executive, Condominios Villa Caparra Plaza, Condominios Villa Caparra Tower, Condominios Villa Caparra Town Park, Hogar San José de la Montaña, Residencial Zenón Díaz Valcárcel, Sector Buen Samaritano, Sector Fondo del Saco, Sector Jerusalén, Sector La Esperanza, Sector Robles, Urbanización Alturas de San Patricio, Urbanización Arboleda, Urbanización Balcones de Sevilla, Urbanización Caparra Hills, Urbanización Caparra Town Park, Urbanización Chalets de la Reina, Urbanización Garden Hills Estate, Urbanización Garden Hills, Urbanización Georgetown, Urbanización Golden Gate, Urbanización Los Caobos Apartamentos, Urbanización Los Caobos, Urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills, Urbanización Mansiones de Tintillo, Urbanización Parkside, Urbanización Parque de Villa Caparra, Urbanización Parque San Patricio, Urbanización San Patricio, Urbanización Suchville, Urbanización Sunset Harbor, Urbanización Susan Court (Calle Patricia: Casas 9, 10, 47 a la 51), Urbanización Terrazas de Tintillo (Calle 1: casas 1 a la 5 y 13 a la 16, Calle Wall: Casas 17 a la 20), Urbanización Tintillo Gardens, Urbanización Tintillo Hills (casas 507, 507ª y de la 600 a la 612), Urbanización Tintillo, Urbanización Town House San Patricio, Urbanización Villa Concepción 1 y 2, Urbanización Villa de Flamboyán, Urbanización Villa Elsie, Urbanización Villa Trujillo, Urbanización Villa Verde, Urbanización Villas de Tintillo, Urbanización Y Extensión Villa Caparra, and Víctor Braegger.

Gallery

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  Parroquia San Jose, Urbanización Villa Caparra
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  Caribbean Cinema at San Patricio Plaza in Pueblo Viejo
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  Stream near San Patricio Plaza in Pueblo Viejo barrio
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  Caparra Archaeological Site in Pueblo Viejo

See also

•  Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
• Caparra Archaeological Site

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pueblo Viejo 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.
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7. 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.
8. "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.
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10. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
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14. . factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
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 GUAYNABO 006" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
19. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL GUAYNABO 007" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2020.