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Calvache

Coordinates: 18°19′06″N 67°13′40″W / 18.318306°N 67.227666°W / 18.318306; -67.227666
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Calvache
Barrio
Location of Calvache within the municipality of Rincón shown in red
Location of Calvache within the municipality of Rincón shown in red
Calvache is located in Caribbean
Calvache
Calvache
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°19′06″N 67°13′40″W / 18.318306°N 67.227666°W / 18.318306; -67.227666[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Rincón
Area
[1]
 • Total
2.41 sq mi (6.2 km2)
 • Land2.33 sq mi (6.0 km2)
 • Water0.08 sq mi (0.2 km2)
Elevation
[2]
49 ft (15 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total
2,222
 • Density953.6/sq mi (368.2/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Calvache is a barrio in the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,222.[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 Calvache barrio was 708.[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][11][12] Part of the Stella community is in Calvache.[5]

The following sectors are in Calvache barrio:[13]

Acres de Córcega, Calle Ajacio, Calle Bastia, Calle Caleta Los Frailes, Calle Calvi, Calle Corte, Calle El Cielo, Calle Invierno, Calle La Moca, Calle Occhiatanna, Calle Otoño, Calle Poggio Doletta, Calle Porto Vecchio, Calle Primavera, Calle Puesta del Sol, Calle Rue de Córsica, Calle Verano, Carretera 115, Carretera 411, Comunidad Agrícola Bianchi, Comunidad Calvache, Condominio Córcega Apartments, Condominio Costa Córcega, Condominio Las Coronas, Condominio Los Almendros, Condominio Pelican Reef, Condominio Rincón Ocean Club I y II, Condominio Victoria del Mar, Cruces Nuevas, Sector Benito González, Sector Campo Alegre, Sector Córcega, Sector El Salto (El Último Brinco), Sector Hacienda Juanita, Sector La Jalda o Camino Anselmo, Sector Las Lomas, Sector Los Muelles, Sector Palatine Hill, Sector Pico Carrero, Sector Toño Olán and Urbanización Valle Escondido.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calvache barrio
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  6. ^ 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. 160.
  7. ^ "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. ^ Mari Mut, José A. (28 August 2013). "Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2020 – via archive.org.
  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 (Primera edición 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 2019.
  12. ^ "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  13. ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL RINCÓN 039" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2020.


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