Guilarte is a rural
barrio in the municipality of
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
History
In the 19th century, Guilarte was a large coffee producer.
Guilarte was in Spain's
gazetteers
until Puerto Rico was ceded by
Spain
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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
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, als ...
conducted a
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Guilarte barrio was 1,019.
See also
*
List of communities in Puerto Rico
References
External links
*
Barrios of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
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