Islote, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Islote is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,665.[3][4][5]

Islote
Barrio
Location of Islote within the municipality of Arecibo shown in red
Islote
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°28′54″N 66°38′50″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Arecibo
Area
 • Total9.63 sq mi (24.9 km2)
 • Land7.28 sq mi (18.9 km2)
 • Water2.35 sq mi (6.1 km2)
Elevation23 ft (7 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total5,665
 • Density778.2/sq mi (300.5/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

History
Crab in Islote

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Islote barrio was 2,498.[6]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[7] in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.[8][9][10]

The following sectors are in Islote barrio:[11][12]

Callejón del Cristo (Callejón del Diablo), Callejón Francés Apartamentos Oceanía, Comunidad Islote I y II, Comunidad Jarealito, Comunidad Vigía, Condominios Atlántica, Sector Boán, Sector Caracoles, Sector Cueva del Indio, Sector El Callejón, Sector La Vía, Sector Melilla, Sector Pasaje, Sector Piquiña, Sector Rincón Chiquito, Sector Rincón Grande, Sector Vívora, Urbanización Brisas de Palma Roja, Urbanización Brisas del Mar I y II, Urbanización Corales del Mar, Urbanización Costa de Oro, Urbanización Costa del Atlántico, Urbanización Costas del Mar, and Urbanización Reparto Maritza.

Birth of a New World

Birth of the New World, a 360 foot (110 m) bronze sculpture of Christopher Columbus and a ship is located on the Atlantic coastline, in Islote.[13]

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See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Islote barrio
  3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
  4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  5. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  6. 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. 160.
  7. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  9. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
  10. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  11. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 026" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  13. "Culpable Cristóbal Colón... ¡del tapón!". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 22 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.


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