Plata, Aibonito, Puerto Rico

Plata (also La Plata)[3] is a barrio in the municipality of Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,724.[4][5][6]

Plata
Barrio
Location of Plata within the municipality of Aibonito shown in red
Plata
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°09′40″N 66°14′08″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Aibonito
Area
 • Total2.92 sq mi (7.6 km2)
 • Land2.92 sq mi (7.6 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation1,037 ft (316 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total1,724
 • Density590.4/sq mi (228.0/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)
ZIP Code
00786

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 Plata barrio was 1,554.[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 Plata barrio:[12]

Carretera 727, Carretera 728, La Tuca, Sector Amoldaderos, Sector Empalme, Sector Escuelas, Sector Fraternidad, Sector Hoyo Frío, Sector Hoyo Oscura, Sector La Calle, Sector La Cantera, Sector La Parada, Sector Los Chorritos, Sector Los Muros, Sector Naguita, Urbanización Paseo del Plata, and Urbanización Valle de la Plata.

Special communities

Since 2001 when law 1-2001 was passed,[13] measures have been taken to identify and address the high levels of poverty and the lack of resources and opportunities affecting specific communities in Puerto Rico. Initially there were 686 places that made the list.[14] By 2008, there were 742 places on the list of Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico. The places on the list are barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods and in 2004, Amoldadero in La Plata, and Los Muros in La Plata made the list.[14] In 2017, Jesus Velez Vargas, the director of the Special Communities of Puerto Rico program stated that the program was evolving with more ways to help the residents of these so-called marginal communities.[15][16]

See also

References
  1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plata barrio
  3. http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/069%20AIBONITO.pdf
  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. 164.
  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 AIBONITO 069" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  13. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  14. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  15. "Evoluciona el proyecto de Comunidades Especiales". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 24 February 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  16. "Ya es ley Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2019.


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