Marías, Añasco, Puerto Rico

Marías is a barrio in the municipality of Añasco, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,658.[3][4][5]

Marías
Barrio
El salto de la encantada in Marías
El salto de la encantada in Marías
Location of Marías within the municipality of Añasco shown in red
Location of Marías within the municipality of Añasco shown in red
Marías is located in Caribbean
Marías
Marías
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°18′01″N 67°08′27″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Añasco
Area
[1]
 • Total1.76 sq mi (4.6 km2)
 • Land1.76 sq mi (4.6 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation
[2]
259 ft (79 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total4,658
 • Density2,646.6/sq mi (1,021.9/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Features

El salto de la encantada is a waterfall located in Marías. Legend has it that an indigenous woman was enchanted with a Spaniard but saddened when a relationship never developed between them. The waterfall is where the woman comes to comb her hair at night and if a visitor is there at 12 midnight, she will speak of, and give the visitor a talisman against, unrequited love.[6]

History

The barrio was in Spain's gazetteers[7] 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 combined population of Marías and Quebrada Larga barrios was 923.[8]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1940817—
19508585.0%
19602,138149.2%
19804,855—
19904,196−13.6%
20004,4987.2%
20104,6583.6%
U.S. Decennial Census
1900 (N/A)[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 Marías barrio:[18]

Barrio Marías Arriba, Carretera 402, Extensión Los Flamboyanes, Parcelas Marías, Sector El Salto, Sector La Variante, Sector Valle Hermoso, Urbanización Jardines de la Encantada, and Urbanización Valle Real.

See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marías 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. "El Salto de la Encantada, Añasco". www.callejeandopr.com (in Spanish). 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  7. "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.
  8. 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. 164.
  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. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". 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 AÑASCO 040" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.


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