Rabanal, Cidra, Puerto Rico

Rabanal is a barrio in the municipality of Cidra, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,228.[3][4][5]

Rabanal
Barrio
Location of Rabanal within the municipality of Cidra shown in red
Rabanal
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°10′28″N 66°11′57″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Cidra
Area
 • Total3.77 sq mi (9.8 km2)
 • Land3.77 sq mi (9.8 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation1,775 ft (541 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total4,228
 • Density1,121.5/sq mi (433.0/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 Rabanal and Salto barrios was 1,498.[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 Rabanal barrio:[11]

Rabanal Norte

Almirante, Comunidades Unidas, Cortés, Finca Alicea, Flores de la Riviera o Las Flores, Haciendas de Cidra o El Banco, Jardines de Rabanal, Jardines de la Cumbre, La Milagrosa, Las Jaguas, Mejías, and Meléndez.

Rabanal Sur

Alejandro, Alturas de Cidra, Borrero, Colinas de Buenos Aires, Diego Rivera, El Buen Pastor, El Paraíso, Fátima, Jolujo, Jiménez o Loma de los Jiménez, La Cumbre, La Loma, La Pastora, Lomas de Rabanal, Los Bravos, Los Dos Mangoes, Los Panes, Malavé, Millo Reyes, Monseñor Ignacio González, Piñeiro, San José, Tierra Linda, and Tres y Medio (3½).

In Rabanal is Parcelas La Milagrosa comunidad and part of the Cidra 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: Rabanal 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. "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. "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - CIDRA 076" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2020.


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