Herreras
Herreras | |
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Barrio | |
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  Herreras Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°23′59″N 65°49′08″W / 18.399813°N 65.818935°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Río Grande |
| Area | 3.74 sq mi (9.7 km2) |
| • Land | 3.22 sq mi (8.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0.52 sq mi (1.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 782 |
| • Density | 242.9/sq mi (93.8/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Herreras is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 782.[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 Herreras barrio was 221.[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 Herreras barrio:[11][12]
Apartamentos 7000 Bahía Beach Boulevard, Apartamentos Grand Bay, Apartamentos Las Olas, Apartamentos Las Ventanas, Berwind Beach Resort, Comunidad P. H. Hernández (Hong Kong), Condominio Las Verandas, Apartments Ocean Drive Beachfront Residence, and Urbanización Las Estancias.
In Herreras is part of the Río Grande urban zone.[5][13]
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Herreras 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 101" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 15 February 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 102" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 15 February 2019 (PDF). Retrieved 16 June 2020.
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