Bauta Abajo
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 Bauta Abajo barrio:
Sector El Cementerio, Sector El Lago, Sector Guaraguaíto, Sector La Escuela, Sector La Francia, Sector La Muela, Sector La Sierra, Sector Matrullas, Sector San Miguel, Sector Taita, and Sector Toñingo.
History
Bauta Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers until 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 Bauta Abajo barrio was 1,603.
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 1,603 | — | |
| 1910 | 1,729 | 7.9% | |
| 1920 | 2,026 | 17.2% | |
| 1930 | 1,599 | −21.1% | |
| 1940 | 2,368 | 48.1% | |
| 1950 | 2,062 | −12.9% | |
| 1960 | 1,727 | −16.2% | |
| 1970 | 1,411 | −18.3% | |
| 1980 | 1,330 | −5.7% | |
| 1990 | 1,522 | 14.4% | |
| 2000 | 1,651 | 8.5% | |
| 2010 | 1,516 | −8.2% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) 1910-1930 1930-1950 1980-2000 2010 | |||
