Caracol, Añasco, Puerto Rico
Caracol | |
|---|---|
Barrio | |
 Location of Caracol within the municipality of Añasco shown in red | |
  Caracol Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°18′02″N 67°09′34″W / 18.300563°N 67.159362°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Añasco |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.40 sq mi (3.6 km2) |
| • Land | 1.40 sq mi (3.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 79 ft (24 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,869 |
| • Density | 1,335/sq mi (515/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Caracol is a barrio in the municipality of Añasco, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,869.[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 combined population of Caracol and Hatillo barrios was 1,030.[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 Caracol barrio:[11]
Carretera 402, Sector Agustín Matías, Sector Calzadera, Sector Caracol Abajo, Sector Caracol Arriba, Sector La Variante, Sector Pepe Pratts, and Sector Peyo Valentín.
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caracol 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. 164.
- ^ "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 AÑASCO 040" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
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