Buenos Aires, Lares, Puerto Rico

Buenos Aires
Barrio
Hills in Buenos Aires
Location of Buenos Aires barrio within the municipality of Lares shown in red
Buenos Aires Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°15′51″N66°50′42″W / 18.2642°N 66.844946°W / 18.2642; -66.844946 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Lares
Area [1]
• Total	6 sq mi (20 km2)
• Land	6 sq mi (20 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	1,516 ft (462 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	2,291
• Density	381.8/sq mi (147.4/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Buenos Aires is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,291. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

Buenos Aires was in Spain's gazetteers ^[6] 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 Buenos Aires barrio was 1,449. ^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,449		—
1910	1,430		−1.3%
1920	1,918		34.1%
1930	1,599		−16.6%
1940	1,909		19.4%
1950	1,815		−4.9%
1960	1,865		2.8%
1970	1,944		4.2%
1980	2,158		11.0%
1990	2,344		8.6%
2000	3,060		30.5%
2010	2,291		−25.1%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900) [8] 1910-1930 [9] 1930-1950 [10] 1980-2000 [11] 2010 [12]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) ^[13] and subbarrios, ^[14] 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. ^{[15] [16] [17]}

The following sectors are in Buenos Aires barrio: ^[18]

Carretera Acueducto, Finca Magraner, Hacienda Delgado, La Pepa, Sector Alto Grande, Sector Jobos Mario, Sector Jobos, Sector La América, Sector La Gloria, Sector La Matilde, Sector Matías, Sector Miján, Sector Morell, Sector Palmasola, Sector Tostero, Tramo Carretera 128 , and Tramo Carretera 129 .

Gallery

• 
  PR-129 at PR-128 intersection between Buenos Aires and Mirasol barrios
• 
  PR-415 in Buenos Aires

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Lares, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government. Archived from the original on 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buenos Aires 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. Archived from the original on 2018-12-26. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
6. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
7. 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. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
8. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
9. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
10. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
11. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
12. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
13. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
14. "P.L. 94-171 VTD/SLD Reference Map (2010 Census): Lares Municipio, PR" (PDF). www2.census.gov. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
15. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
16. 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
17. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
18. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL LARES 053" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 14 June 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

External links

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buenos Aires barrio