Mercado,_Old_San_Juan

Mercado, Old San Juan

Mercado, Old San Juan

Subbarrio of San Juan Antiguo in Puerto Rico

Mercado, located within Old San Juan, is one of 7 subbarrios in San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico.

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History

The name of this subdistrict comes from the Spanish word for marketplace, as Old San Juan's main marketplace used to be located here.

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, finding that the population of Mercado was 2,038.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    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.


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