Dominguito, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Dominguito
Barrio
Sign for Dominguito from PR-129
Location of Dominguito within the municipality of Arecibo shown in red
Dominguito Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°24′06″N66°44′34″W / 18.401596°N 66.742811°W / 18.401596; -66.742811 [1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Arecibo
Area [1]
• Total	6.72 sq mi (17.4 km2)
• Land	6.71 sq mi (17.4 km2)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)
Elevation [2]	518 ft (158 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	4,895
• Density	729.5/sq mi (281.7/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Dominguito is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,895. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

History

Dominguito 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 Dominguito barrio was 1,093. ^[7]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,093		—
1910	1,489		36.2%
1920	2,071		39.1%
1930	2,959		42.9%
1940	2,671		−9.7%
1950	3,019		13.0%
1960	3,039		0.7%
1970	3,258		7.2%
1980	3,831		17.6%
1990	4,499		17.4%
2000	4,998		11.1%
2010	4,895		−2.1%
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] 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. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

The following sectors are in Dominguito barrio: ^{[17] [18]}

Calle Estremera Camino Estemera Comunidad Javier Hernández Comunidad Mattey Reparto Isidoro Colón Reparto Ramírez Sector Alto Cuba Sector Boquerón Sector Cuatro Calles Sector Cuchí 1 y 2 Sector Green Sector Guayabota Sector Juego de Bola Sector Juncos Sector La Joya Sector La PRRA Sector López Sector Los Colones Sector Los Piches Sector Mata de Plátano Sector Valle Colinas Sector Vira La Guagua Urbanización Campo Alegre I Urbanización Campo Alegre II Urbanización Campo Alegre Urbanización Jardines de Green Urbanización Remanso de Dominguito Urbanización Siverio, and Urbanización Villa Vélez.

Gallery

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  Puerto Rico Highway 635 between Campo Alegre (Hatillo) and Dominguito (Arecibo)

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

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

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dominguito 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. "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.
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. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
15. 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
16. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
17. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 026" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
18. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.