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Puntas, Rincón, Puerto Rico

Coordinates: 18°21′46″N 67°15′34″W / 18.362679°N 67.259563°W / 18.362679; -67.259563
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Puntas
Barrio
Casa Isleña in Puntas
Casa Isleña in Puntas
Location of Puntas within the municipality of Rincón shown in red
Location of Puntas within the municipality of Rincón shown in red
Puntas is located in Caribbean
Puntas
Puntas
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°21′46″N 67°15′34″W / 18.362679°N 67.259563°W / 18.362679; -67.259563[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Rincón
Area
 • Total2.45 sq mi (6.3 km2)
 • Land1.93 sq mi (5.0 km2)
 • Water0.52 sq mi (1.3 km2)
Elevation253 ft (77 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total1,575
 • Density816.1/sq mi (315.1/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Puntas is a barrio in the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,575.[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 Puntas barrio was 1,006.[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]

The following sectors are in Puntas barrio:[13]

Calle Boulevard, Calle Colinas Lindas, Calle Los Flamboyanes, Camino Interior, Camino Martillo, Camino Vista Nuclear, Carretera 413, Centro Puntas, Condominio Landing View Village, Paseo Tirado Sánchez, Punta Higüera, Puntas Nuevas, Ramal 413, Sector Alfonso Arizmendi, Sector Brisas, Sector Buena Vista, Sector Cielo Mar, Sector Colinas Lindas, Sector Collazo, Sector Cuchillo de Piñas, Sector Dominga Cardona, Sector Ismael Sánchez, Sector Los Cipreses, Sector Los Flamboyanes, Sector Trinitarias, Sector Vereno, and Sector Vista Linda.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Puntas 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. ^ 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.