Guadiana, Naranjito, Puerto Rico

Guadiana is a barrio in the municipality of Naranjito, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,978.[3][4][5]

Guadiana
Barrio
La Plata Lake from Guadiana
Location of Guadiana within the municipality of Naranjito shown in red
Guadiana
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°18′53″N 66°13′23″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Naranjito
Government
 • MayorOrlando Ortiz Chevres
Area
 • Total3.51 sq mi (9.1 km2)
 • Land3.27 sq mi (8.5 km2)
 • Water0.24 sq mi (0.6 km2)
Elevation266 ft (81 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,978
 • Density1,216.5/sq mi (469.7/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)
Zip code
00719

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 Guadiana barrio was 1,006.[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 Guadiana barrio:[11][12]

Camino Lico Cruz, Camino Moncho Pagán, Camino Pascual Rivera, Comunidad Lago La Plata, El Cuco, Guadiana Alto, La Hueca, Sector Alejandro (Entrada a Guadiana), Sector Anselmo Cabrera, Sector Cabrera, Sector Colón, Sector Cuesta Las Abejas, Sector Guadiana Chinea, Sector Guadiana Espinel, Sector Guadiana Ortega, Sector Hatito, Sector La Gallera, Sector Lago Verde, Sector Los Juanes, Sector Negrón, Sector Otero, and Sector Parcelas.

See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Guadiana 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. 162.
  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. "Plan Territorial (2012)" (PDF). JP PR Gov (in Spanish). Gobierno Municipal de Naranjito -Oficina de Planificación y Ordenación Territorial. p. 43. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL NARANJITO 073" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2020.


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