San Cristóbal, Old San Juan
San Cristóbal | |
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_(5421846791).jpg) San Cristóbal in Old San Juan | |
 San Cristóbal is in San Juan Antiguo | |
 San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan | |
  San Cristóbal San Juan is in Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°28′09″N 66°06′43″W / 18.4692798°N 66.1118660°W | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  San Juan |
| Barrio | San Juan Antiguo |
| Population (1990) | |
• Total | 1,358 |
| Source: Census 1990 | |
San Cristóbal is one of the seven subbarrios of the San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico.[1] San Cristóbal, named after Castillo San Cristóbal, is one of the six subbarrios which form part of the Old San Juan Historic District.[2] Half of La Perla is located within the borders of the San Cristóbal subbarrio, the other half is located in the neighboring subbarrio, Mercado.[3]
History
The subbarrio San Cristóbal was one of the original four barrios of San Juan before the annexations of Santurce in 1863. During this time it was known as Barrio de Santa Bárbara, named after the former Santa Bárbara de la Cruz Hermitage (Hermita de Santa Bárbara de la Cruz), a former monastery which in turn is the namesake of the modern Calle de la Cruz, and the Santa Bárbara Bastion (Bastión de Santa Bárbara), a former artillery battery located where La Perla is now.[4]
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.[5] In 2010, the population of San Cristóbal was 1,230.[6]
Cityscape
Places of interest
Main streets and squares
- Calle de la Luna
- Calle de la Tanca
- Calle del Sol
- Norzagaray Street
- San Justo Street
- San Sebastián Street
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rodriguez Morales, Luis M. (June 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Zona Histórica de San Juan (San Juan Historic Zone)". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved September 23, 2024 – via National Archives.
- ^ "NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Update for the Caribbean Parks, Saturday, October 7, 2017 – 6pm". Office of Communications (U.S. National Park Service). 2017-10-07. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ Morales, Dra Carmen Alicia (2019-03-15). "Historia del Viejo San Juan: La ermita de la calle de la Cruz de Santa Bárbara". Periódico El Adoquín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
Media related to San Cristóbal, San Juan, Puerto Rico at Wikimedia Commons- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: San Cristóbal Subbarrio