Calabazas, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico Facts for Kids

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Barrio
Street and homes in Calabazas
Location of Calabazas within the municipality of San Sebastián shown in red
Calabazas, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	San Sebastián
Area
• Total	5.69 sq mi (14.7 km²)
• Land	5.69 sq mi (14.7 km²)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km²)
Elevation	643 ft (196 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	2,768
• Density	486.5/sq mi (187.8/km²)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Calabazas is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,768.

History
Sectors
Demographics
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History

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 Calabazas barrio was 746.

The road to the Calabazas bridge, which is over Culebrinas River suffered heavy damages with Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017, and debris was piled up in and around the bridge.

One of the 16 deaths in Puerto Rico attributed to the 2022 category 4 Hurricane Fiona happened in Calabazas.

Pepino Memorial Park, a cemetery is located in Calabazas.

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 Calabazas barrio:

Carretera 111, Carretera 4435, Residencial Jardines de Piedras Blancas, Sector Audeliz Torres, Sector Bartolo Cordero, Sector Cataño, Sector El Refugio, Sector Jandino Ruiz, Sector La Loma, Sector Los Tanques, Sector Lupe Mártir, Sector Mamey, Sector Orta, Sector Pablo Nieves (Los Pinos), Sector Quinto Ríos, Sector Rancho Grande, Sector Rubén Hernández, Sector Toño Mestre, Urbanización Jardines Villy Ana, Urbanización Raholisa, Urbanización Venturini, and Urbanización Villas de Piedras Blancas.

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1900	746	—
1980	1,772	—
1990	2,126	20.0%
2000	2,458	15.6%
2010	2,768	12.6%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) 1910-1930 1930-1950 1980-2000 2010