Maguayo

Maguayo is a barrio in the municipality of Dorado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,496.[2][3][4]

Maguayo
Barrio
Maguayo
Maguayo, Dorado, Puerto Rico
Maguayo
Maguayo (Caribbean)
Coordinates: 18°25′02″N 66°16′52″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Dorado
Elevation
135 ft (41 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total4,496
 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 Maguayo barrio was 764.[5]

Sectors

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[6] 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.[7][8][9]

The following sectors are in Maguayo barrio:[10]

Parcelas El Cotto, Sector Abra, Sector Calandria, Sector Camino Los Nieves, Sector Cotto Martell, Sector Cuatro Calles, Sector El Cotto, Sector Los Bloise, Sector Los Dávila, Sector Los Torres, Sector Maguayo Adentro, Sector Maracayo, Sector Martell, Sector Maysonet I y II, Sector Polvorín, Sector Río Nuevo (Carretera 693), Sector Santa Rosa (Jazmín, Guayabo, Combate), Urbanización Alturas De Plata, Urbanización Bosque Dorado, and Urbanización Valle del Dorado.

In Maguayo barrio is part of the Río Lajas comunidad.[4]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Maguayo
  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. 161.
  6. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  7. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  8. 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
  9. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  10. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL DORADO 015" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2020.


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