Jaguas, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Jaguas is a barrio in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,083.[3][4][5]

Jaguas
Barrio
Location of Jaguas within the municipality of Gurabo shown in red
Jaguas
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°17′25″N 66°00′36″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Gurabo
Area
 • Total3.08 sq mi (8.0 km2)
 • Land2.88 sq mi (7.5 km2)
 • Water0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
Elevation689 ft (210 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total2,083
 • Density723.3/sq mi (279.3/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

History

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 Jaguas barrio was 868.[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][11][12]

The following sectors are in Jaguas barrio:[13]

Hacienda Mirador, Jaguas Lomas, Quintas del Lago, Sector Adorno, Sector Arturo López, Sector Cáceres, Sector Calletano Sanchéz, Sector Carazo, Sector Carrasquillo, Sector Colón Flores, Sector Cosme, Sector Negrón, Sector Díaz, Sector Felipe Ocasio, Sector Felix Díaz, Sector Guillermo Flores, Sector Isidro Vázquez, Sector Jaguas Llanos, Sector Jaguas Peñón, Sector Juan Guadalupe, Sector La Agrícola, Sector Las Casitas, Sector Llinás, Sector Los Colones, Sector Los Oyola, Sector Los Paganes, Sector Los Quiñones, Sector Los Vives, Sector Márquez, Sector Núñez, Sector Ocasio, Sector Oller, Sector Olmedo, Sector Oyola, Sector Pagán, Sector Pepe Díaz, Sector Richard Rivera, Sector Soto, Sector Tino Torres, Sector Urrutia, Sector Viera Pérez, Sector Vives, and Sector Zavala.

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See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jaguas 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. 163.
  7. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. Mari Mut, José A. (28 August 2013). "Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2020 – via archive.org.
  9. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  10. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza : Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (Primera edición ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
  11. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  12. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  13. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL GURABO 084" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2020.


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