Hoya Mala Explained

Hoya Mala (also spelled Hoyamala)^[2] is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,594.^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

Hoya Mala 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 Hoya Mala barrio was 1,215.^[7]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[8] 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.^{[9] [10]}

The following sectors are in Hoya Mala barrio:^[11]

Spanish; Castilian: [[Puerto Rico Highway 119|Carretera 119]], Carretera 447, Carretera 448, Sector Capilla Católica, Sector Daniel Méndez, Sector Esteban Cardona, Sector Gabriel Jiménez, Sector Jiménez, Sector Julio Lugo, Sector La 21, Sector Las Toscas, Sector Lechuza, Sector Mercado, Sector Monroig, Sector Pascual Ruiz, Sector Planta de Gas, Sector Porto Román, and Spanish; Castilian: Sector Sharon.

Río Culebrinas flooding

In late May 2019, barrio Hoyamala and multiple areas in various municipalities suffered flooding, felled trees, landslides and closed highways when Río Culebrinas flooded.^[12]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: US Gazetteer 2019. US Census . US Government.
2. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL SAN SEBASTIÁN 033 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 19 October 2018 . 19 June 2019 . 21 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200621150939/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/033%20SAN%20SEBASTIAN.pdf . dead .
3. Book: 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. Book: Gwillim Law. Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. 25 December 2018. 20 May 2015. McFarland. 978-1-4766-0447-3. 300.
5. Book: Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf . 2010. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau.
6. Web site: Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881 . Biblioteca Nacional de España . es . 1614. 4 April 2023.
7. Book: Joseph Prentiss Sanger. Henry Gannett. Walter Francis Willcox. Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office. 1900. Imprenta del gobierno. 160. ES.
8. Web site: US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition . factfinder.com . US Census . 5 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170513190743/https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm . 13 May 2017 . dead .
9. Web site: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
10. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
11. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL SAN SEBASTIÁN 033 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 19 October 2018 . 19 June 2019 . es . 21 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200621150939/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/033%20SAN%20SEBASTIAN.pdf . dead .
12. Web site: Árboles caídos, ríos crecidos y carreteras cerradas en el oeste por las lluvias. 29 May 2019. Primera Hora. es.