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| settlement_type = Barrio
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| image_skyline = Salto Abajo, Utuado 00641, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg
| image_skyline = Salto Abajo, Utuado 00641, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg
| image_caption = Highway in Salto Abajo
| image_caption = [[Puerto Rico Highway 10]] in Salto Abajo
| image_map = Salto Abajo, Utuado, Puerto Rico locator map.png
| image_map = Salto Abajo, Utuado, Puerto Rico locator map.png
| map_caption = Location of Salto Abajo within the municipality of Utuado shown in red
| map_caption = Location of Salto Abajo within the municipality of Utuado shown in red
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| elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{GNIS|2415979|Salto Abajo barrio}}</ref>
| elevation_ft = 568
| elevation_ft = 568
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'''Salto Abajo''' is a [[Barrios of Puerto Rico|barrio]] in the municipality of [[Utuado, Puerto Rico]]. Its population in 2010 was 3,929.<ref name="Pico_1969">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Law2015">{{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}}</ref><ref name= "2010 Census">{{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}}</ref>
'''Salto Abajo''' is a [[Barrios of Puerto Rico|barrio]] in the municipality of [[Utuado, Puerto Rico]]. Its population in 2010 was 3,929.<ref name="Pico_1969">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Law2015">{{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}}</ref><ref name= "2010 Census">{{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}}</ref>

==Geography==
Salto Abajo is situated at an elevation of {{convert|568|ft}}, just north of [[Salto Arriba]] and [[Utuado barrio-pueblo|Pueblo]] in Utuado, [[Puerto Rico]]. It has an area of {{convert|2.66|sqmi}} of which {{convert|0.03|sqmi}} is water.<ref name="gaze">{{cite web |title=US Gazetteer 2019|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_cousubs_72.txt |website=US Census |publisher=US Government}}</ref>


==History==
==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 conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Salto Abajo barrio was 836.<ref name="OfficeSanger1900">{{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/n252 161]| language=es}}</ref>
Salto Abajo was in Spain's [[gazetteer]]s<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[Insular area|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 Salto Abajo barrio was 836.<ref name="OfficeSanger1900">{{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/n252 161]| language=es}}</ref>
{{US Census population
{{US Census population| align= center
| 1900=
| 1900= 836
| 1910=
| 1910= 1116
| 1920=
| 1920= 1130
| 1930=
| 1930= 1306
| 1940=
| 1940= 1223
| 1950=
| 1950= 1812
| 1960=
| 1960= 2701
| 1970=
| 1970= 0
| 1980= 5127
| 1980= 5127
| 1990= 6043
| 1990= 6043
| 2000= 5724
| 2000= 5724
| 2010= 3929
| 2010= 3929
|estyear=
|estimate=
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017}}</ref>
|align-fn=center
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2016/PEPANNRES/0500000US72005|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200213114938/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2016/PEPANNRES/0500000US72005|archivedate=February 13, 2020}}</ref><br />1899 (shown as 1900)<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1910-1930<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />1930-1950<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1980-2000<ref>{{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}}</ref> 2010<ref name= "US2010Census">{{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}}</ref>}}
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<br />1899 (shown as 1900)<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1910-1930<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />1930-1950<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1980-2000<ref>{{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}}</ref> 2010<ref name= "US2010Census">{{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}}</ref>}}


==Features==
==Features==
The rope bridge in Salto Abajo was destroyed by [[Hurricane Maria]] in 2017.<ref name="Guzmá Vocero 2018">{{cite web | last=Arroyo Guzmán | first=Paola | title=Utuado busca la forma de sobrevivir | website=El Vocero de Puerto Rico | date=2018-09-20 | url=https://www.elvocero.com/regionales/utuado-busca-la-forma-de-sobrevivir/article_c8258b16-b6b1-11e8-a58a-f3414bf77f70.html | language=es | access-date=2021-04-11}}</ref>
After the rope bridge in Salto Abajo was destroyed by [[Hurricane Maria]] in 2017, engineering students from the [[University of New Mexico]] and [[University of Texas at El Paso]] began its reconstruction, but never completed the work.<ref name="Guzmá Vocero 2018">{{cite web | last=Arroyo Guzmán | first=Paola | title=Utuado busca la forma de sobrevivir | website=El Vocero de Puerto Rico | date=2018-09-20 | url=https://www.elvocero.com/regionales/utuado-busca-la-forma-de-sobrevivir/article_c8258b16-b6b1-11e8-a58a-f3414bf77f70.html | language=es | access-date=2021-04-11}}</ref>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed heights=150px>
<gallery mode=packed heights=150px>
Puente La Hamaca El Verde - Utuado, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg|{{lang|es|Puente La Hamaca}} in Salto Abajo, 2010
Puente La Hamaca El Verde - Utuado, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg|{{lang|es|Puente La Hamaca}} in Salto Abajo, 2010
Carretera PR-111, Utuado, Puerto Rico.jpg|[[Puerto Rico Highway 111]] in Salto Abajo
</gallery>
</gallery>


Latest revision as of 18:43, 23 September 2024

Salto Abajo
Barrio
Puerto Rico Highway 10 in Salto Abajo
Puerto Rico Highway 10 in Salto Abajo
Location of Salto Abajo within the municipality of Utuado shown in red
Location of Salto Abajo within the municipality of Utuado shown in red
Salto Abajo is located in Caribbean
Salto Abajo
Salto Abajo
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°17′12″N 66°42′37″W / 18.28657°N 66.710307°W / 18.28657; -66.710307[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Utuado
Area
[1]
 • Total2.66 sq mi (6.9 km2)
 • Land2.63 sq mi (6.8 km2)
 • Water0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2)
Elevation
[2]
568 ft (173 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,929
 • Density1,493.9/sq mi (576.8/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Salto Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,929.[3][4][5]

Geography

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Salto Abajo is situated at an elevation of 568 feet (173 m), just north of Salto Arriba and Pueblo in Utuado, Puerto Rico. It has an area of 2.66 square miles (6.9 km2) of which 0.03 square miles (0.078 km2) is water.[1]

History

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Salto Abajo 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 population of Salto Abajo barrio was 836.[7]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1900836—
19101,11633.5%
19201,1301.3%
19301,30615.6%
19401,223−6.4%
19501,81248.2%
19602,70149.1%
19700−100.0%
19805,127—
19906,04317.9%
20005,724−5.3%
20103,929−31.4%
U.S. Decennial Census
1899 (shown as 1900)[8] 1910-1930[9]
1930-1950[10] 1980-2000[11] 2010[12]

Features

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After the rope bridge in Salto Abajo was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, engineering students from the University of New Mexico and University of Texas at El Paso began its reconstruction, but never completed the work.[13]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salto Abajo barrio
  3. ^ Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
  4. ^ Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. ^ Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  6. ^ "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  7. ^ Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 161.
  8. ^ "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  9. ^ "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  10. ^ "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
  11. ^ "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  12. ^ Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  13. ^ Arroyo Guzmán, Paola (2018-09-20). "Utuado busca la forma de sobrevivir". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-04-11.


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