Bajadero, Puerto Rico
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Bajadero is a barrio of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
. It is known for its class B baseball team, the Atleticos of Bajadero. Bajadero has its own post office and has a joint elementary and intermediate school, Ramon Emeterio Betancez.
The name Bajadero comes from the time of the 1940s when the surrounding barrio women would go to the river to do their laundry. Many women from the time dreaded the chore of doing laundry because the would have to climb steep slopes "bajadas" to reach the river to do their laundry. According to the grapevine, the complaint in Spanish was "hay, haora tengo que ir para ese bajadero para lavar" ("darn, now I have to go down those dam slopes 'bajadero' to do the laundry"). However, Bajadero is part of the original barrio Arenalejos which is adjacent to the east of Bajadero.
Bajadero has also produce some major league baseball players.
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Arecibo is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean, north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta, and Florida. Arecibo is spread over 18 wards and Arecibo Pueblo...
. It is known for its class B baseball team, the Atleticos of Bajadero. Bajadero has its own post office and has a joint elementary and intermediate school, Ramon Emeterio Betancez.
The name Bajadero comes from the time of the 1940s when the surrounding barrio women would go to the river to do their laundry. Many women from the time dreaded the chore of doing laundry because the would have to climb steep slopes "bajadas" to reach the river to do their laundry. According to the grapevine, the complaint in Spanish was "hay, haora tengo que ir para ese bajadero para lavar" ("darn, now I have to go down those dam slopes 'bajadero' to do the laundry"). However, Bajadero is part of the original barrio Arenalejos which is adjacent to the east of Bajadero.
Bajadero has also produce some major league baseball players.