Catholic Church and Plaza, Guánica
Description
View of the Guánica plaza. A catholic church with a symmetric gabled roof, a pinnacle, an oculus, and pointed arches on the front door and windows can be observed. Near the church there are people approaching the building, horse-drawn carriages, a series of wooden plank crates, and numerous one-story buildings.| Origin Name |
AGPR_FonFort_CorrGen_002_F019_R
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| Relation |
Archivo General de Puerto Rico > Fondo Fortaleza > Serie Correspondencia General > Fotografías Yauco 1910-1920
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| Geographical Coverage |
Guánica
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| Date |
1910/1920
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging team. On the image's recto, there is an inscription that indicates: "No 19 Iglesia católica y plaza "Delicias," Guánica". On the image's verso: "Fondo: Oficina del Gobernador [Fortaleza] Serie: Correspondencia General Caja: #2 Foto: #19 Iglesia católica y plaza "Delicias" Guánica." The original photograph has some missing areas.
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| Descripción decolonial |
In the public square, Plaza Delicias, of the municipality of Guánica, there is a high concentration of population in the parish of San Antonio Abad, built in 1888 during the Spanish colonial period. The church is seen as the only knowable element of Plaza Delicias, thus showing its coloniality of power that imposes a Eurocentric worldview as a belief system, denying religious otherness beyond the Catholic faith. There was only one interest of the Spanish government in wanting to shape the Puerto Rican identity from what was correct in the Manichean sense of the colonial order. The absence of urbanized space in the parish's border areas suggests the lack of interest that the Spanish government had in developing urban planning in the southwest, which would not be surprising if the Guaniquean population had not shown much resistance during the American invasion of the island.
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| Rights |
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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