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Hato Viejo is a
barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residenti ...
in the municipality of Ciales, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,442. Hato Viejo has more than a dozen sectors, a historic bridge, and folklore about a boy and a cave.


History

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 Hato Viejo barrio was 1,800. In August 2020, the United States released Federal Emergency Management Agency funds in support of the coffee industry, directly benefitting a coffee processing plant in Hato Viejo barrio. The funds were appropriated in response to millions of dollars lost by the agricultural industry of Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.


Features

The Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano, built in 1905, is located in Hato Viejo and is touted as a tourist site. It connects Ciales to Manatí, a neighboring municipality.


Sectors

Barrios (which are roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) 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. The following sectors are in Hato Viejo barrio: , and .


Folklore

is a legend about a boy from Caliche Sector. The legend says a mother who was working picking fruit had her son with her and that because he kept frolicking around her, she asked him to stay in the cave while she labored. Each time she took him to the cave he followed her back to work. In her final attempt to have her son wait for her at the cave while she worked she sang him a song as she slowly walked away. One verse song reads, "...Ay, turulete, Ay turulete, que el que no tiene vaca no bebe leche.." (). She never returned for the boy, night fell, and the boy began to cry. Locals say they hear a boy crying near the cave, and see him frolicking and when they try to catch him, he disappears, only to reappear again steps away.


See also

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List of communities in Puerto Rico In Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities and 902 municipio subdivisions made up of 827 barrios and 75 barrios-pueblo. There are also a number of subbarrios and communities. The following is a list of the 902 barrios, some of the subbarrios, i ...
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List of barrios and sectors of Ciales, Puerto Rico Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Ciales is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. The barrios and subbarrios, in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated ...


References

{{Reflist Barrios of Ciales, Puerto Rico