Tierras Nuevas Poniente
Tierras Nuevas Poniente | |
|---|---|
Barrio | |
 Secluded beach in Tierras Nuevas Poniente | |
  Tierras Nuevas Poniente Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°27′47″N 66°30′54″W / 18.463027°N 66.515111°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality | 
Manatí |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.30 sq mi (18.9 km2) |
| • Land | 6.26 sq mi (16.2 km2) |
| • Water | 1.04 sq mi (2.7 km2) |
| Elevation | 10 ft (3 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,614 |
| • Density | 577.3/sq mi (222.9/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Tierras Nuevas Poniente is a barrio in the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,614.[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 Tierras Nuevas Poniente barrio was 1,534.[6]
Places of interest
Playa Cueva Las Golondrinas, where visitors have been cited for public indecency, is located in Tierras Nuevas Poniente. Puerto Rico does not have nudist beaches.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tierras Nuevas Poniente 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. 161.
- ^ "Investigan la existencia de una posible playa nudista en Manatí". Univision (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
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