{{Short description|Barrio of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Algarrobos | settlement_type = Barrio | image_skyline = Carretera PR-104, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (1).jpg | image_caption = Puerto Rico Highway 104 in Algarrobos | image_map = Algarrobos, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico locator map.png | map_caption = Location of Algarrobos within the municipality of Mayagüez shown in red | pushpin_map = Caribbean | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Puerto Rico | coordinates = {{coord|18.229657|-67.167322|region:US-PR|format=dms|display=inline, title}} | coordinates_footnotes = <ref name="gaze">{{cite web |title=US Gazetteer 2019|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_cousubs_72.txt |website=US Census |publisher=US Government}}</ref> | subdivision_type = Commonwealth | subdivision_name = {{flag|Puerto Rico}} | subdivision_type1 = Municipality | subdivision_name1 = {{flagicon image|Mayaguez-flag.svg}} Mayagüez | unit_pref = Imperial | area_footnotes = <ref name="gaze" /> | area_total_sq_mi = 2.43 | area_land_sq_mi = 1.66 | area_water_sq_mi = 0.77 | population_as_of = 2010 | population_footnotes = | population_note = Source: 2010 Census | population_total = 4383 | population_density_sq_mi = 2640.4 | timezone = AST | utc_offset = −4 | elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{GNIS|2415103|Algarrobos barrio}}</ref> | elevation_ft = 72 | postal_code_type = ZIP Code | postal_code = | area_code = }}
'''Algarrobos''' is a barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,383.<ref name="Pico_1969">{{cite book |last1=Picó |first1=Rafael |last2=Buitrago de Santiago |first2=Zayda |last3=Berrios |first3=Hector H. |title=Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. |url=https://archive.org/details/nuevageografad00pic/page/247|publisher=San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969}}</ref><ref name="Law2015">{{cite book|author=Gwillim Law|title=Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=nXCeCQAAQBAJ|accessdate=25 December 2018|date=20 May 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0447-3|page=300}}</ref><ref name= "2010 Census">{{cite book|title=Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf | url = https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|year=2010|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref>
==Background== Algarrobos is a coastal, rural barrio deriving its name from the Algarrobo tree. The Algarrobo tree is leguminous, with shiny leaves and purple and white flowers. Its fruit is the carob bean, which consists of seeds covered by an edible substance, contained in a capsule-shaped pod.<ref name="AEPR" />
==History== Mayagüez was a perfect smugglers' shelter for being a distance away from the barracks occupied by authorities. Its value was the strategic entrance to the Castillo de los Valdés in Algarrobos. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was in its jurisdiction a stronghold, the Algarrobo Fort, and Spanish battalions were there, one by the sea and another on the west side of Cerro de El Vigia. In the mid-twentieth century there was an American battalion located by the sea in the vicinity of Peña Cortada.<ref name="AEPR" />
Algarrobos was in Spain's gazetteers<ref>{{cite web | title=Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881 | website=Biblioteca Nacional de España | url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=9047075f-3c7e-411c-9e1e-41a2f650e1ba&page=1587 | language=es |page=1614| access-date=4 April 2023}}</ref> 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 Algarrobo barrio was 1,054.<ref name="OfficeSanger1900">{{cite book|author1=Joseph Prentiss Sanger|author2=Henry Gannett|author3=Walter Francis Willcox|title=Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office|url=https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog|year=1900|publisher=Imprenta del gobierno|page=[https://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog/page/n255 164]| language=es}}</ref> {{US Census population| align= center | 1900= 1054 | 1910= 1003 | 1920= 965 | 1930= 1422 | 1940= 1796 | 1950= 1380 | 1960= 2219 | 1970= 2769 | 1980= 5354 | 1990= 5074 | 2000= 4792 | 2010= 4383 |align-fn=center |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<br />1899 (shown as 1900)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/reportoncensusof00unitiala#page/n245/mode/2up|title=Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899|publisher=War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716033905/https://archive.org/stream/reportoncensusof00unitiala#page/n245/mode/2up|archive-date=July 16, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 1910-1930<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/00476569ch4.pdf|title=Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817181600/https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/00476569ch4.pdf|archive-date=August 17, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><br />1930-1950<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/23761117v1ch12.pdf|title=Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150830033735/http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/23761117v1ch12.pdf|archive-date=August 30, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> 1980-2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-53-eng.pdf|title=Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724061852/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-3-53-eng.pdf|archive-date=July 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 2010<ref name= "US2010Census">{{cite book|title=Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf|url=https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|year=2010|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2019-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220183043/https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-20|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
==Economy== Between 1962 and 1998 it was the base port and the headquarters of the largest tuna factory in America.<ref name="AEPR">{{cite web|last= Valentin Calderon|first=Lionel |url=https://aquiestapuertorico.com/barrio-algarrobos/|title=Barrio Algarrobos |publisher= Aquí Esta Puerto Rico| language=es}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Puerto Rico}} * List of communities in Puerto Rico
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}}
Category:Barrios of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
{{MayagüezPR-geo-stub}}