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In 1903, the first Baptist church opened its doors in Gurabo town. Gurabo is also known as "La Ciudad de las Escaleras", or the "City of Stairs". Located in the town center district of El Cerro, the stairs (step streets) are about twenty-two floors high, and they are painted in bright colors. [2] Gurabo's mayor is Rosachely Rivera Santana. [3]
The district is located on a steep hill just south of the main town square of Gurabo. One of the most distinctive features of El Cerro are its step streets, pedestrian streets that consists of colorfully painted stairs. These step streets give Gurabo one of its nicknames Pueblo de las Escaleras ("town of the stairs").
The barrios and subbarrios, [2] 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. Some sectors appear in two barrios.
00778. Gurabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center ( seat) of Gurabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,509. [1] [4] [5] [6] 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.
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 24 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico is along the central mountain region, from Las Marías and Maricao in the central-west to Juncos in the central-east, including the slopes of the Cordillera.
Pages in category "Barrios of Gurabo, Puerto Rico" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The unofficial but colloquial San Juan metropolitan area (in Spanish; área metropolitana de San Juan, abbreviated AMSJ), also referred to as the Área Metro is the sprawling area surrounding the Municipality of San Juan which includes San Juan and its conurbation of the municipalities of Bayamón, Carolina, Cataño, Guaynabo and Trujillo Alto, and in some cases it also includes Toa Baja ...
History. Quebrada Infierno was in Spain's gazetteers [6] 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 ...