Ballajá, Old San Juan

Subbarrio of San Juan Antiguo in Puerto Rico

Subbarrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico

18°28′14″N 66°07′28″W / 18.4706129°N 66.1245620°W / 18.4706129; -66.1245620Commonwealth

San Juan BarrioSan Juan AntiguoWebsitehttp://www.ballaja.com/

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

History

This subdistrict is named after the historic Ballajá Barracks, which now house the Museum of the Americas. El Morro is also located in this subdistrict.

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 Ballajá was 1,217.^[1]

Gallery

Aerial view of the northwest tip of San Juan Antiguo
Ballajá barracks

References

^ 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.