Zarzal, Río Grande, Puerto Rico

Zarzal is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 14,314.[2][3][4]

Zarzal
Barrio
Zarzal
Coordinates: 18°23′13″N 65°47′14″W[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Río Grande
Elevation
52 ft (16 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total14,314
 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 Zarzal barrio was 1,191.[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 Zarzal barrio:[6][7]

Apartamentos Bosque del Mar, Apartamentos Costa Dorada, Apartamentos Las Casas at Coco Beach, Apartamentos Las Vistas de Río Mar, Apartamentos Lindo Mar II, Apartamentos Lindo Mar, Apartamentos Vista de Yunque Mar, Apartments Río Grande Estates, Camino Guilin, Camino Los González, Casa del Mar Resort, Comunidad Villas Realidad, Continental Beach Resort, Costa Real, Egda. Jardín del Yunque, Hacienda Jordán, Hogar Sánchez Cintrón Del Este Parcelas Carola, Sector Carola, Sector Corea, Urbanización Costa del Sol, Sector Cuchilla, Sector Culebro, Sector Jericó, Sector La Victoria, Sector Las Coles, Parcelas Figueroa, Sector Las Tres T (Parte al Este de la Quebrada Juan González), Sector Las Tres T (Parte al Oeste de la Quebrada Juan González), Sector Los Castro, Sector Los Paganes, Sector Los Rodríguez, Sector Los Rosales, Sector Mabí, Sector Matibulen, Sector Punta Arena, Sector Punta Picúa, Sector Vietnam, Urbanización Colinas Las Tres, Urbanización Estancias Del Madrigal, Urbanización Lindo Mar I, Urbanización Mirador de Palmer, Urbanización Río Grande Estates, Urbanización Río Grande Estates, Urbanización Villa del Mar (Coco Beach), Urbanización Villas del Rey, Urbanización Vistas de Río Mar, Vereda del Mar, and Yunque del Mar Resort.

In Zarzal is the Hato Candal comunidad and part of the Palmer comunidad.[4][8]

See also

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