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Quemado, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

barrio in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ6094413 ↗
Source-derived summary

Quemado is a barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2518.

History

Quemado was in Spain's gazetteers 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 Quemado barrio was 952.

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“Quemado, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico” enters the record as barrio in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Quemado, Mayagüez and Puerto can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1898, 1899—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Quemado, Mayagüez and Puerto.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6094413. Authority coordinates are 18.215, -67.096. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1898 and 1899.

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This entry incorporates text from “Quemado, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.