Isla de Mona e Islote Monito, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Isla de Mona e Islote Monito is an island-barrio of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The US census of 2000 reports six housing units, but a population of zero.[1] The Barrio is made up of the islands of Mona and Monito. This is the largest ward of Mayagüez by area, and the only one without permanent population.[2] The total land area of both islands in the barrio is about 56.93 km² (Mona Island 56.783 km² and nearby Monito Island 0.147 km²), and it comprises 28.3 percent of the total land area of the municipality of Mayagüez. Desecheo Island, 49 km to the northeast, is part of Sabanetas barrio. The Mona Island Lighthouse is located in the ward. Isla de Mona e Islote Monito is surrounded by the Mona Passage.

Isla de Mona e Islote Monito
Barrio
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Mayagüez
Area
 • Total21.98 sq mi (56.93 km2)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total0
 • Density0/sq mi (0/km2)
 2000 census
Main article: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

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 Mona was 6.[3]

See also

References
  1. "US Census (2000)". Archived from the original on 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  2. Cedó Alzamora, Federico (2010). MAYAGÜEZ,SU NOMBRE, SOBRENOMBRES Y LOS DE SUS BARRIOS (PDF). Mayagüez: Gobierno Municipal de Mayagüez. pp. 26–27.
  3. 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. 164.
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Isla de Mona e Islote Monito Barrio
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