Pasto 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 delimited by functional (e.g. residential, comm ...
in the municipality of
Morovis, Puerto Rico
Morovis (, ) is a Morovis barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central region of the island, north of Orocovis, south of Manatí, Vega Baja and Vega Alta; east of Ciales, and west of C ...
. Pasto has about 8 sectors and its population in 2010 was 767.
Geography
Pasto is located in the southern part of Morovis, between
Vaga
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and
Perchas and to its north are
San Lorenzo and
Río Grande, all barrios of Morovis. The southern border of Pasto barrio is with the municipality of
Orocovis.
History
Morovis and its barrios were founded in 1818 by Juan Evangelista Rivera and Juan José de Torres.
Pasto was in Spain's
gazetteer
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s until Puerto Rico was ceded by
Spain
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in the aftermath of the
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the ...
under the terms of the
Treaty of Paris of 1898
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and became an
unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the
United States Department of War
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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 Pasto barrio was 1,314.
On September 20, 2017
Hurricane Maria
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devastated the island of Puerto Rico. The landslides caused by Hurricane Maria's rains left Morovis cut off from its neighboring municipalities. In Pasto, a large boulder and landslide blocked entry into and out of the barrio, cutting it off from any outside help. Bridge access into San Lorenzo, a neighboring barrio was cut off as well.
Sectors
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, 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 Pasto barrio:
, and
.
See also
*
List of communities in Puerto Rico
In the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities serving as second-level administrative divisions, and 902 barrios proper, consisting of 828 barrios and 74 barrios-pueblos, serving as third-level divisions. Barrios are s ...
References
External links
* {{Commons category-inline, Pasto (Morovis)
Barrios of Morovis, Puerto Rico