Buenos Aires, Lares, Puerto Rico
{{short description|Barrio of Puerto Rico}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Buenos Aires
| settlement_type = Barrio
| image_skyline = Barrio Buenos Aires, Lares, Puerto Rico.jpg
| image_caption = Hills in Buenos Aires
| image_map = Buenos Aires, Lares, Puerto Rico locator map.png
| map_caption = Location of Buenos Aires barrio within the municipality of Lares shown in red
| pushpin_map = Caribbean
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Puerto Rico
| coordinates = {{coord|18.2642|-66.844946|region:US-PR|format=dms|display=inline, title}}
| subdivision_type = Commonwealth
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Puerto Rico}}
| subdivision_type1 = Municipality
| subdivision_name1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Grito de Lares (current, medium blue).svg}} Lares
| unit_pref = Imperial
| area_total_sq_mi = 6
| area_land_sq_mi = 6
| area_water_sq_mi = 0
| population_as_of = 2010
| population_footnotes =
| population_note = Source: 2010 Census
| population_total = 2291
| population_density_sq_mi = 381.8
| timezone = AST
| utc_offset = −4
| elevation_footnotes = {{GNIS|2415193|Buenos Aires barrio}}
| elevation_ft = 1516
| postal_code_type = ZIP Code
| postal_code =
| area_code =
}}
Buenos Aires is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,291.{{cite book |last1=Picó |first1=Rafael |last2=Buitrago de Santiago |first2=Zayda |last3=Berrios |first3=Hector H. |title=Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. |url=https://archive.org/details/nuevageografad00pic/page/247 |publisher=San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969 |access-date=2019-01-03 |archive-date=2018-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226171916/https://archive.org/details/nuevageografad00pic/page/247 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|author=Gwillim Law|title=Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=nXCeCQAAQBAJ|accessdate=25 December 2018|date=20 May 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0447-3|page=300}}{{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=2019-01-03|archive-date=2017-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220183043/https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|url-status=live}}
History
Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires barrio was 1,449.{{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/n251 160]|language=es|access-date=2020-01-27|archive-date=2012-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115044918/http://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog|url-status=live}}
{{US Census population| align= center
| 1900= 1449
| 1910= 1430
| 1920= 1918
| 1930= 1599
| 1940= 1909
| 1950= 1815
| 1960= 1865
| 1970= 1944
| 1980= 2158
| 1990= 2344
| 2000= 3060
| 2010= 2291
|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}} 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}}}}
Sectors
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions){{cite web |title=US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm |website=factfinder.com |publisher=US Census |accessdate=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513190743/https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm |archive-date=13 May 2017 |url-status=dead }} and subbarrios,{{cite web |title=P.L. 94-171 VTD/SLD Reference Map (2010 Census): Lares Municipio, PR |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_english/c72081_lares/PL10VTD_C72081_001.pdf |website=www2.census.gov |publisher=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau |accessdate=22 August 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.presupuesto.pr.gov/Presupuesto2015-2016/PresupuestosAgencias/229.htm|title=Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)|website=Puerto Rico Budgets|language=es|accessdate=28 June 2019|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628234856/http://www.presupuesto.pr.gov/Presupuesto2015-2016/PresupuestosAgencias/229.htm|url-status=live}}{{Citation | author1=Rivera Quintero, Marcia | title=El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 | publication-date=2014 | publisher=San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón | edition=first | isbn=978-0-9820806-1-0 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/Leyes2001/lex2001001.htm|title=Leyes del 2001|website=Lex Juris Puerto Rico|language=es|accessdate=24 June 2020|archive-date=14 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914224408/http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/Leyes2001/lex2001001.htm|url-status=live}}
The following sectors are in Buenos Aires barrio:{{cite web |title=PRECINTO ELECTORAL LARES 053 |url=http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/053%20LARES.pdf |website=Comisión Estatal de Elecciones |publisher=PR Government |date=14 June 2019 |access-date=19 June 2019 |language=es |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622080515/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/053%20LARES.pdf |url-status=live }}
{{lang|es|Carretera Acueducto,
Finca Magraner,
Hacienda Delgado,
La Pepa,
Sector Alto Grande,
Sector Jobos Mario,
Sector Jobos,
Sector La América,
Sector La Gloria,
Sector La Matilde,
Sector Matías,
Sector Miján,
Sector Morell,
Sector Palmasola,
Sector Tostero,
Tramo Carretera 128}}, and {{lang|es|Tramo Carretera 129}}.
Gallery
Carretera PR-129, intersección con la carretera PR-128, Lares, Puerto Rico.jpg|PR-129 at PR-128 intersection between Buenos Aires and Mirasol barrios
Carretera PR-415, Lares, Puerto Rico.jpg|PR-415 in Buenos Aires
See also
{{Portal|Puerto Rico}}
References
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