Hoya Mala

Hoya Mala (also spelled Hoyamala)[3] is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,594.[4][5][6]

Hoya Mala

Hoyamala
Barrio
Hoya Mala
Coordinates: 18°21′06″N 66°57′48″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality San Sebastián
Area
 • Total5.69 sq mi (14.7 km2)
 • Land5.69 sq mi (14.7 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation883 ft (269 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total3,594
 • Density631.6/sq mi (243.9/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 Hoya Mala barrio was 1,215.[7]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[8] 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.[9][10][11]

The following sectors are in Hoya Mala barrio:[12]

Carretera 119, Carretera 447, Carretera 448, Sector Capilla Católica, Sector Daniel Méndez, Sector Esteban Cardona, Sector Gabriel Jiménez, Sector Jiménez, Sector Julio Lugo, Sector La 21, Sector Las Toscas, Sector Lechuza, Sector Mercado, Sector Monroig, Sector Pascual Ruiz, Sector Planta de Gas, Sector Porto Román, and Sector Sharon.

Río Culebrinas flooding

In late May 2019, barrio Hoyamala and multiple areas in various municipalities suffered flooding, felled trees, landslides and closed highways when Río Culebrinas flooded.[13]

See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hoya Mala barrio
  3. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL SAN SEBASTIÁN 033" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones. PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  7. 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.
  8. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  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 24 June 2020.
  12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL SAN SEBASTIÁN 033" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  13. "Árboles caídos, ríos crecidos y carreteras cerradas en el oeste por las lluvias". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 29 May 2019.


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