Hato Puerco, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

Hato Puerco is a barrio in the municipality of Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,379.[3][4][5]

Hato Puerco
Barrio
Location of Hato Puerco within the municipality of Canóvanas shown in red
Hato Puerco
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°19′22″N 65°53′04″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Canóvanas
Area
 • Total7.96 sq mi (20.6 km2)
 • Land7.96 sq mi (20.6 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation607 ft (185 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total7,379
 • Density927/sq mi (358/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 Hato Puerco barrio, which was in the municipality of Loíza, was 3,139.[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 the Campo Rico comunidad of Hato Puerco barrio:[11][12][5]

Camino Los Matos, Camino Los Navarro, Carretera 185, Finca Pozos, Parcelas Alturas de Campo Rico, Parcelas Campo Rico, Sector Belia, Sector Canovanillas, Sector Chorrito, Sector El Purgatorio, Sector Febo, Sector La Marina, Sector La Vega, Sector Loma del Viento, Sector Los González, Sector Maga, Sector Puente Moreno, Sector Toma de Agua, and Urbanización Las Haciendas.

The following sectors are in Palma Sola in Hato Puerco:

Carretera 957, Sector El Hoyo, Sector Los Castros, Sector Maga, and Sector Peniel.

See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hato Puerco 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. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL CANÓVANAS 104" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL CANÓVANAS 105" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hato Puerco barrio


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