Adjuntas barrio-pueblo

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) ({{langx|es|a propósito para las fiestas}}), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors ({{langx|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.{{cite book|jstor=j.ctvbcd2vs.12|title=Mirada al Caribe|first=Luis A.|last=Santullano|chapter=La Plaza y la Calle |date=10 March 2019|publisher=Colegio de Mexico|volume=54|pages=75–78|doi=10.2307/j.ctvbcd2vs.12}}

Located across from the central plaza in Adjuntas barrio-pueblo is the {{lang|es|Parroquia San Joaquín}}, a Roman Catholic church which was inaugurated in 1815.{{cite book | first= José A. |last=Mari Mut |title=Los Pueblos de Puerto Rico y Las Iglesias de Sus Plazas [The Pueblos of Puerto Rico, and the Churches of its Plazas]| date=2013-08-28 | url=http://edicionesdigitales.info/PueblosPR/pueblospr.pdf | language=es | pages= 10–12|access-date=2020-12-14}}

The location of modern-day Adjuntas barrio-pueblo was first settled in the Cidra River valley at the beginning of the 19th century, along an old road that connected Utuado with Ponce and the southern coast of Puerto Rico. At the time, the territory formed part of the municipal region of Coamo. A chapel was erected in 1805, which was later upgraded into a parish church by petition of the citizens of Adjuntas. The official founding of the pueblo happened on August 11, 1815, with Don Diego Maldonado being its official founder and first elected representative.{{Cite web |title=Historia de Adjuntas – AdjuntasPR.com |url=https://adjuntaspr.com/historia-de-adjuntas/ |access-date=2023-01-15 |language=es}} The settlement of Adjuntas was granted official "villa" status by the Spanish crown in 1894.[http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/bv/Impacto_Real_Cedula.pdf El Impacto de la Real Cédula de Gracia en Adjuntas en 1815] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919160715/http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/bv/Impacto_Real_Cedula.pdf|date=September 19, 2011}} on Interamerican University of Puerto Rico; Martínez Román, José A.

Adjuntas barrio-pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers{{cite web | title=Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881 | website=Biblioteca Nacional de España | url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=9047075f-3c7e-411c-9e1e-41a2f650e1ba&page=1587 | language=es |page=1614| access-date=4 April 2023}} 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 Adjuntas barrio-pueblo (Pueblo) was 1,963.{{cite book|author1=Joseph Prentiss Sanger|author2=Henry Gannett|author3=Walter Francis Willcox|title=Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office|url=https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog|year=1900|publisher=Imprenta del gobierno|page=[https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog/page/n256 165]| language=es}}

• The Adjuntas Public Square (Plaza Pública de Adjuntas), located at the very center of town, is one of the highest in Puerto Rico, at almost 1,640 feet (500 m) in elevation. It hosts a large working thermometer, paying homage to some of the coldest recorded temperatures in Puerto Rico.{{Cite web |title=Plaza de Recreo Adjuntas |url=https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/es/profile/plaza-de-recreo-adjuntas/8389 |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=Discover Puerto Rico |language=es}} As it is custom in Puerto Rico, the plaza also hosts the city hall (alcaldía) and Roman Catholic parish church (Parroquia San Joaquín).
• Casa Pueblo (Spanish for "the people's house") is a non-profit community and educational organization dedicated to the protection of the environment. It is located in a historic Criollo house, and it often hosts cultural events, educational tours and classes. This organization is largely responsible for the creation of the nearby People's Forest (Bosque del Pueblo).
• The Washington Irving Grade School (Escuela Graduada Washington Irving) is a National Register of Historic Places-listed building located near the town plaza.

{{US Census population| align= center

| 1900= 1963

| 1910= 1406

| 1920= 1729

| 1930= 2376

| 1940= 3856

| 1950= 5262

| 1960= 5318

| 1970= 5319

| 1980= 5239

| 1990= 5081

| 2000= 4980

| 2010= 4406

|align-fn=center|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census
1899 (shown as 1900){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/reportoncensusof00unitiala#page/n245/mode/2up|title=Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899|publisher=War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716033905/https://archive.org/stream/reportoncensusof00unitiala#page/n245/mode/2up|archive-date=July 16, 2017|url-status=live}} 1910-1930{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/00476569ch4.pdf|title=Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817181600/https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/00476569ch4.pdf|archive-date=August 17, 2017|url-status=live}}
1930-1950{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/23761117v1ch12.pdf|title=Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150830033735/http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/23761117v1ch12.pdf|archive-date=August 30, 2015|url-status=live}} 1960{{cite book | title=Census of Population, 1960: Number of Inhabitants, General Population Characteristics, General Social and Economic Characteristics, and Detailed Characteristics. Characteristics of the population | publisher=U.S. Bureau of the Census| issue=v. 1 | year=1963 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nd8WAAAAYAAJ | access-date=June 10, 2023 | pages=97–101}} 1980-2000{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-53-eng.pdf|title=Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724061852/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-53-eng.pdf|archive-date=July 24, 2017|url-status=live}} 2010{{cite book|title=Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf|url=https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|year=2010|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2019-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220183043/https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-20|url-status=live}}}}

Places in Adjuntas barrio-pueblo:

Escuela Washington Irving 2 - Adjuntas Puerto Rico.jpg|Washington Irving School, listed on the US National Register of Historic Places{{Cite web|title=NPGallery Asset Detail|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/15000274|access-date=2021-09-16|website=npgallery.nps.gov}}

La bella fuente.jpg|Fountain at the central plaza of Adjuntas

Adjuntas, early 20th Century.jpg|Adjuntas Pueblo in the early 20th century

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