Ciénaga Baja

Ciénaga Baja is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 18,385.[2][3][4]

Ciénaga Baja
Barrio
Ciénaga Baja
Coordinates: 18°22′47″N 65°51′04″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Río Grande
Elevation
23 ft (7 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total18,385
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

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 Ciénaga barrio was 1,610.[5]

Sectors

Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Río Grande is subdivided into administrative units called barrios (which mean wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in Spanish). The barrios in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (which mean sectors in Spanish). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.

The following sectores are in Ciénaga Baja barrio:[6][7]

Apartamentos Miradores del Yunque, Camino Los Rivera, Carretera 959, Comunidad Casiano Cepeda, Condominio Portales de Río Grande, Condominio Portales del Yunque, Condominio Río Grande for The Elderly, Egda. Río Dorado Elderly (Sampayo Inc.), Extensión Estancias del Sol, Parcelas Estancias del Sol, Parcelas La Ponderosa, Parcelas Las Dolores, Parcelas Monte Bello, Residencial Galateo, Sector Las Flores Interior, Río Grande Hills, Sector El Hoyo, Sector Las Flores, Sector Monte Flores, Urbanización Alturas de Río Grande, Urbanización Jardines de Río Grande, Urbanización Montecillo, Urbanización Pedregales, Urbanización Proyecto Casa Verde, Urbanización Proyecto Finca Galateo, Urbanización Villas de Cambalache I y II, Urbanización Villas de Río Grande, and Urbanización Vistas de Río Grande I y II.

In Ciénaga Baja is the La Dolores comunidad, and part of the Río Grande urban area.[8]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ciénaga Baja
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  5. 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.
  6. "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 101" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 15 February 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  7. "DESGLOSE DE SECTORES Y CENTROS DE VOTACIÓN PRECINTO ELECTORAL - RÍO GRANDE 102". Comisión Estatal de Elecciones Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 15 February 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  8. Río Grande y sus barrios, Censo de los Estados Unidos


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