Ciudad Nueva | |
|---|---|
Subbarrio | |
  Ciudad Nueva | |
| Coordinates: 18°25′22″N66°03′10″W / 18.4227535°N 66.0526900°W Coordinates: 18°25′22″N66°03′10″W / 18.4227535°N 66.0526900°W | |
| Commonwealth |  |
| Municipality |  |
| Barrio | Hato Rey Central |
| Area | |
| • Total | .20 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| • Land | .20 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| Elevation | 23 ft (7 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,807 |
| • Density | 9,035.0/sq mi (3,488.4/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Ciudad Nueva is a subbarrio, a legal subdivision [2] of Hato Rey Central, a barrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico. [3]
Hato Rey Central is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. With a population density of 20,320.7 per square mile (7,845.87/km2), it is the most densely populated barrio in the municipality. It has a land area of 1.03 sq mi (2.67 km2) and a 2000 Census population of 20,867.
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. Each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios.
San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it is the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 395,326. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496 and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1519. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas.
