Magos, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico

Magos is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 232.^[3][4][5]

Magos
Barrio
Cuesta de Magos is a long, steep, narrow, curvy section of PR-438 that leads down to Río Culebrinas in Magos.
Location of Magos within the municipality of San Sebastián shown in red
Magos Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°18′30″N 66°56′37″W[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	San Sebastián
Area [1]
• Total	1.42 sq mi (3.7 km2)
• Land	1.42 sq mi (3.7 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	804 ft (245 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	232
• Density	163.4/sq mi (63.1/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

History

Magos 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 combined population of Magos and Eneas barrios was 1,003.^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1910	425		—
1920	435		2.4%
1930	500		14.9%
1940	482		−3.6%
1950	494		2.5%
1960	382		−22.7%
1970	248		−35.1%
1980	215		−13.3%
1990	261		21.4%
2000	242		−7.3%
2010	232		−4.1%
U.S. Decennial Census 1900 (N/A)[8] 1910-1930[9] 1930-1950[10] 1980-2000[11] 2010[12]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[13] 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.^[14][15][16]

The following sectors are in Magos barrio:^[17]

Carretera 438, Carretera 451, Carretera 470, Sector Ballester, Sector La Cuadra, Sector Melito Oliva, Sector Miguel A. Pérez, Sector Puente Lajas, Sector Pujols, Sector Sonoco, Sector Toño Jiménez, and Urbanización Santa Teresita.

Río Culebrinas

There is a bridge on PR-438 that goes over the Culebrinas River in Magos and when the river floods the road is closed to traffic.^[18][19]

Gallery

• 
  At bottom of Cuesta de Magos near Río Culebrinas
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  Cuesta de Magos as seen from barrio Calabazas, San Sebastián
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  Slanted bridge at bottom of hill, on PR-438 over Río Culebrinas in barrio Magos
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  Cuesta de Magos in barrio Magos, PR-438
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  Vegetation and fruit trees at bottom of "Magos Hill"

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Magos barrio
3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. (1969). 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. 160.
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. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
14. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
15. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
16. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
17. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL SAN SEBASTIÁN 033" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
18. "Río Culebrinas trae problemas al tránsito en el oeste". NOTICEL CyberNews (in Spanish). 30 May 2019.
19. "Extienden aviso de inundaciones por Río Culebrinas • WIPR". 30 May 2019.