Piedras Blancas, Aguada, Puerto Rico

Piedras Blancas is a barrio in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,635.[3][4][5]

Piedras Blancas
Barrio
Location of Piedras Blancas within the municipality of Aguada shown in red
Piedras Blancas
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°21′47″N 67°11′10″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Aguada
Area
 • Total2.80 sq mi (7.3 km2)
 • Land2.80 sq mi (7.3 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation79 ft (24 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total4,635
 • Density1,655.4/sq mi (639.2/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 combined population of Piedras Blancas and Asomante barrio was 1,162.[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]

The following sectors are in Piedras Blancas barrio:[12]

Hogar Love and Care, Los González, Paseo Las Flores, Sector Bajura, Sector Cáceres, Sector Chuco Ramos, Sector Jiménez, Sector Juana Torres, Sector La Roca, Sector Los Matos, Sector Los Pinos, Sector Manolo Chaparro, Sector Parada Morales, Sector Pepe Rivera, Sector Pitirre, Sector Rufino Sánchez, Tramo Carretera 411, Urbanización Las Casonas, Urbanización Villa Ofelia, and Urbanización Villas de Sotomayor.

In Piedras Blancas barrio is part of the Aguada urban zone.[5]

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See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piedras Blancas 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. 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 (first 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 23 June 2020.
  12. "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - AGUADA 038" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2020.


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