Mercado, located within
Old San Juan, is one of 7 subbarrios in
San Juan Antiguo 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
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
in Puerto Rico.
History
The name of this subdistrict comes from the
Spanish word for ''marketplace'', as Old San Juan's main marketplace used to be located here.
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 Mercado was 2,038.
See also
*
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 ...
References
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Geography of San Juan, Puerto Rico
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