Dorado barrio-pueblo is a
barrio
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and the administrative center (
seat
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) of
Dorado, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 780.
It is one of the six
barrios
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in the municipality of
Dorado, Puerto Rico, along with Espinosa, Higuillar, Maguayo, Mameyal and Río Lajas.
As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called ''
pueblo'' which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals) are held in the central plaza every year.
The central plaza and its church
The central plaza, or square, is a place for official and unofficial recreational events and a place where people can gather and socialize from dusk to dawn. The
Laws of the Indies, Spanish law, which regulated life in Puerto Rico in the early 19th century, stated the plaza's purpose was for "the parties" (celebrations, festivities) ( es, a propósito para las fiestas), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors ( es, grandeza proporcionada al
número de vecinos). These Spanish regulations also stated that the streets nearby should be comfortable portals for passersby, protecting them from the elements: sun and rain.
Located across the central plaza in Dorado barrio-pueblo is the (English:
Church San Antonio de Padua of Dorado), named after Portuguese Catholic priest
Saint Anthony of Padua. The church was built from 1826 throughout July 1848.
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 Dorado Pueblo was 937.
In July 2020,
Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriated funds for repairs to Dorado's plaza.
Sectors
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to
minor civil divisions
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)
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 Dorado barrio-pueblo:
(before Villa Caíto),
, and
.
In Dorado barrio-pueblo is part of the Dorado urban zone.
Gallery
Places in Dorado barrio-pueblo:
Plaza in Dorado barrio-pueblo, Puerto Rico.jpg, Plaza
Plaza in Dorado barrio pueblo, Puerto Rico.jpg, Plaza
View from bridge on Calle Méndez Vigo in Dorado, Puerto Rico.jpg, Río de la Plata
Parroquia San Antonio de Padua de Dorado.jpg, San Antonio de Padua Catholic church
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 ...
*
List of barrios and sectors of Dorado, Puerto Rico
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Dorado is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, (and means ''wards'' or ''boroughs'' or ''neighborhoods'' in English). The barrios and sub ...
References
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Barrios of Dorado, Puerto Rico