Canóvanas, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico
Canóvanas | |
|---|---|
Barrio | |
 Location of Canóvanas within the municipality of Canóvanas shown in red | |
  Canóvanas Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°23′49″N 65°54′33″W / 18.397056°N 65.909115°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Canóvanas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10.25 sq mi (26.5 km2) |
| • Land | 10.18 sq mi (26.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.07 sq mi (0.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 92 ft (28 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 22,420 |
| • Density | 2,204.5/sq mi (851.2/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Canóvanas is a barrio in the municipality of Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 22,420.[3][4][5]
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 Canóvanas barrio was 1,942.[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 Canóvanas barrio:[11][12]
Apartamentos Alborada, Apartamentos Ciudad Jardín, Barrio Cambalache, Barrio San Isidro, Condominios Park View Terrace, Estancias del Río, Hacienda de Canóvanas, Parcelas Viejas, Río Plantation, River Gardens, River Plantation, River Valley Park, River Valley Town Park, River Villas, Sector Dos Cuerdas, Sector Haciendas Cambalache, Sector Hipódromo El Comandante, Sector Los Bobos, Sector Los Pérez, Sector Los Sotos, Sector Valle Hills, Sector Villa Hugo I y II, Señorío de Gonzaga, Urbanización Ciudad Jardín (Walk Up), Urbanización Estancias de Campo Rico, Urbanización Forest Plantation, Urbanización Loíza Valley, Urbanización Mansiones del Tesoro, Urbanización River Valley, Urbanización Villas de Cambalache, and Urbanización Vistas de Río Grande.
These were in the San Isidro comunidad of Canóvanas: Comunidad, Estancias Tierra Alta, Extensión Quintas y Estancias de Jardines de Palmarejo, Parcelas Nuevas, Sector Las Delicias, Sector Monte Verde, Sector Sucusucu, Sector Villa Conquistador I y II, and Sector Villa Tiro.
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Canóvanas barrio
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL CANÓVANAS 104" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL CANÓVANAS 105" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.