Torrecillas, Morovis, Puerto Rico

Torrecillas is a barrio in the municipality of Morovis, Puerto Rico. Torrecillas has eight sectors and its population in 2010 was 623. A USDA Rural Development field office is located in Torrecillas.^[3][4][5]

Torrecillas
Barrio
High school in Torrecillas
Location of Torrecillas within the municipality of Morovis shown in red
Torrecillas Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°19′54″N 66°26′43″W[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Morovis
Area [1]
• Total	3.35 sq mi (8.7 km2)
• Land	3.35 sq mi (8.7 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	646 ft (197 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	623
• Density	186/sq mi (72/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
Zip code	00687

History

Torrecillas 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 Torrecillas barrio was 572.^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	572		—
1910	567		−0.9%
1920	980		72.8%
1930	1,165		18.9%
1940	1,379		18.4%
1950	1,232		−10.7%
1960	638		−48.2%
1970	374		−41.4%
1980	419		12.0%
1990	621		48.2%
2000	739		19.0%
2010	623		−15.7%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900)[8] 1910-1930[9] 1930-1950[10] 1980-2000[11] 2010[12]

Hurricane Maria hit on September 20, 2017, and six months later a community, of about 300 residents in Torrecillas, reported their electrical power had not yet been restored.^[13]

A USDA Rural Development field office is located on the Torrecillas side of Sector La Línea on PR-6622.^[14]

Sectors

Further information: List of barrios and sectors of Morovis, Puerto Rico

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[15] 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.^[16][17][18]

The following sectors are in Torrecillas barrio:^[19]

Parcelas Extensión Torrecillas, Sector Cabachuelas II, Sector La Cuesta de los Guanos, Sector La Línea, Sector Las Lajas, Sector Ventana, Urbanización La Línea, and Urbanización Tulipanes.

Gallery

• Scenes in Torrecillas
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  Hillside on PR-145
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  PR-155 and PR-145
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  Funeral home in Torrecillas

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Torrecillas 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. "Video of a community in Torrecillas in Morovis". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish).
14. "Puerto Rico Contacts". Rural Development. January 2, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
15. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
16. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
17. 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
18. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
19. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL MOROVIS 020" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Torrecillas at Wikimedia Commons