San Cristóbal, Old San Juan

San Cristóbal
Subbarrio
San Cristóbal in Old San Juan
San Cristóbal in Old San Juan
San Cristóbal is in San Juan Antiguo
San Cristóbal is in San Juan Antiguo
San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan
San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan
San Cristóbal is located in Caribbean
San Cristóbal
San Cristóbal
San Juan is in Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°28′09″N 66°06′43″W / 18.4692798°N 66.1118660°W / 18.4692798; -66.1118660
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality San Juan
BarrioSan Juan Antiguo
Population
 (1990)
 • Total
1,358
 Source: Census 1990

San Cristóbal, within Old San Juan, is one of the seven subbarrios of San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico.[1]

History

Drawing on the wall of Castillo San Cristóbal

This subdistrict is named after Castillo San Cristóbal, one of the largest European fortifications in the Americas, which is located here.

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 San Cristóbal was 3,131.[2] In 2010, the population of San Cristóbal was 1,230.[3]

References

  1. ^ 1990 Census of Housing. Detailed Housing Characteristics: Puerto Rico. U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census. Archived 2010-07-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  2. ^ 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. 162.
  3. ^ Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and housing unit counts (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. p. 76.


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