Barros, Orocovis, Puerto Rico

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Barros
Barrio
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Barros
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°14′51″N66°24′46″W / 18.24751°N 66.412648°W / 18.24751; -66.412648 [1]
Commonwealth Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Municipality Flag of Orocovis, Puerto Rico.svg Orocovis
Area
[1]
  Total2.74 sq mi (7.1 km2)
  Land2.74 sq mi (7.1 km2)
  Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
[2]
1,906 ft (581 m)
Population
 (2010)
  Total1,917
  Density699.6/sq mi (270.1/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zone UTC−4 (AST)

Barros is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,917. [3] [4] [5]

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Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) [6] 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. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

The following sectors are in Barros barrio: [12]

Sector Camilo Meléndez, Sector Doña Lala, Sector Enrique Pérez, Sector La Familia, Sector La Loma, Sector La Vaquería, Sector Las Estancias, Sector Limones, Sector Los Hernández, Sector Los Rivera, Sector Monte Bello, and Sector Sanamuertos.

History

Barros was in Spain's gazetteers [13] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Barros barrio was 987. [14]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
1900 987
1910 845−14.4%
1920 650−23.1%
1930 75716.5%
1940 84711.9%
1950 1,37462.2%
1960 1,043−24.1%
1970 1,32527.0%
1980 1,59120.1%
1990 1,75310.2%
2000 1,8626.2%
2010 1,9173.0%
U.S. Decennial Census
1899 (shown as 1900) [15] 1910-1930 [16]
1930-1950 [17] 1980-2000 [18] 2010 [19]

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