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Gurabo's history dates as far back as the 17th century, when it was actually part of Caguas.Then, the area was known as Burabo.By 1700, transportation, medical and economic troubles were crippling the population of the Burabo area; traveling to Caguas' center for business and medical help was not easy and took hours.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Gurabo is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Gurabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Gurabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 1,509. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
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Masa is a barrio in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,522. [3] [4] [5] History.
Homes on a mountainside in Celada. Celada 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.
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The district is located on a steep hill just south of the main town square of Gurabo. One of the most distinctive features of El Cerro are its step streets, pedestrian streets that consists of colorfully painted stairs. These step streets give Gurabo one of its nicknames Pueblo de las Escaleras ("town of the stairs").