Orocovis barrio-pueblo facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Orocovis barrio-pueblo Pueblo de Orocovis
Municipality Seat
Street in Orocovis Pueblo in 1941
Location of Orocovis barrio-pueblo within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Orocovis barrio-pueblo Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area
• Total	0.11 sq mi (0.3 km2)
• Land	0.11 sq mi (0.3 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	1,657 ft (505 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	682
• Density	6,200/sq mi (2,400/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Orocovis barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Orocovis, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 682.

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. Fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals) are held in the central plaza every year.

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 Orocovis barrio-pueblo barrio:

Sector Salida a Barranquitas, Sector Salida a Coamo, Sector Salida a Corozal, Sector Salida a Morovis, Residencial José Ventura Fortis, Sector Salsipuedes, Calle Dr. Umpierre, Calle Las Flores, La Texaco, Sector El Acueducto Viejo, Sector La Colecturía, Calle Hospital, Sector La Esso, Calle Martín Barry, Luis M. Alfaro, Calle 4 de Julio, and Calle Pedro Arroyo.

The central plaza and its church

The central plaza was built on land donated by Juan de Rivera y Santiago, the founder of Orocovis. 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) (Spanish: a propósito para las fiestas), and that the square should be proportionally large enough for the number of neighbors (Spanish: 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.

Located across the central plaza in Orocovis barrio-pueblo is the Parroquia San Juan Bautista, a Roman Catholic church, which was inaugurated on October 29, 1838.

Orocovis celebrates its patron saint festival in the central plaza each June. The Fiestas Patronales de San Juan Bautista is a religious and cultural celebration that generally features parades, games, artisans, amusement rides, regional food, and live entertainment.

History

By 1838, the town's Catholic church had been inaugurated after being built on land donated by Juan de Rivera y Santiago, the town's founder.

Then in 1898, 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 Orocovis Pueblo (a barrio named Pueblo in Barros, as the municipality of Orocovis was called at the time) was 962.

In July 2020, Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriated funds for repairs to Orocovis' plaza.

Gallery

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  San Juan Bautista Parish in Orocovis

See also

In Spanish: Orocovis (pueblo) para niños

• List of communities in Puerto Rico