Río Lajas, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico

Coordinates: 18°22′27″N 66°17′40″W / 18.3742391°N 66.2944794°W / 18.3742391; -66.2944794
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Río Lajas
Barrio
Río Lajas is located in Puerto Rico
Río Lajas
Río Lajas
Coordinates: 18°22′27″N 66°17′40″W / 18.3742391°N 66.2944794°W / 18.3742391; -66.2944794[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Toa Alta
Elevation
394 ft (120 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total2,566
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Río Lajas is a barrio in the municipality of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,566.[2][3][4]

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 Río Lajas barrio was 973.[5]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[6] 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.[7][8][9]

The following sectors are in Río Lajas: Calles: (Almendro, Cedro, Bambú, Deloniz, Guayacán, Higüero, Laurel, Jacaranda, Kamani, India Laurel, Maga, Níspero, Ébano, Potones, Ceiba, Ibisco), Sector Jazmín, Sector La Cuchilla, Sector Marrero, Sector Marzán, Sector Nilo, Sector Rivera, Sector Ayala, Sector Rufo Rodríguez, Urbanización Haciendas De Dorado, Urbanización Valle del Paraíso, Urbanización Vista del Río I, and Urbanización Vista del Río III.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Lajas
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  10. ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL TOA ALTA 013" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.


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