Herreras

Herreras is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 782.[2][3][4]

Herreras
Barrio
Herreras
Coordinates: 18°24′17″N 65°49′25″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Río Grande
Elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total782
 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 Herreras barrio was 221.[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 Herreras barrio:[6][7]

Apartamentos 7000 Bahía Beach Boulevard, Apartamentos Grand Bay, Apartamentos Las Olas, Apartamentos Las Ventanas, Berwind Beach Resort, Comunidad P. H. Hernández (Hong Kong), Condominio Las Verandas, Apartments Ocean Drive Beachfront Residence, and Urbanización Las Estancias.

In Herreras is part of the Río Grande urban zone.[4][8]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Herreras
  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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