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Pueblo is a term primarily used in Puerto Rico to refer to the municipal district (barrio) that serves as the administrative, historic and cultural center of a municipality. The concept of pueblo is often used locally as analogous to the concept of downtown in U.S. cities. [1] Pueblos are officially called barrio-pueblo by the United States ...
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. [1] Puerto Rico 's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios (English: "wards") and, as of 2010, there were 902 of them. [2][3] In the US Census a barrio sometimes includes a division called a comunidad or ...
The municipalities of Puerto Rico (Spanish: municipios de Puerto Rico) are the second-level administrative divisions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. There are 78 such administrative divisions covering all 78 incorporated towns and cities. Each municipality is led by a mayor and divided into barrios, third-level administrative divisions ...
The Cordillera Central (English: "Central Mountain Range") is the principal and only mountain range in the main island of Puerto Rico, consisting of three subranges: the central Cordillera Central, the southeastern Sierra de Cayey, and the northeastern Sierra de Luquillo. Bordered by the extensive Northern Karst Belt in the northwest and ...
Area code (s) 787, 939. Caguas Pueblo is a barrio and downtown area that serves the administrative center ( seat) of the city and municipality of Caguas, a municipality of Puerto Rico. It is bordered by the Cagüitas River to the north and located two miles southwest of the Río Grande de Loíza. Its population in 2020 was 19,020. [ 4][ 5][ 6][ 7]
11,945.2/sq mi (4,612.1/km 2) 2010 census. Time zone. UTC−4 ( AST) Río Piedras Pueblo (officially just Pueblo, unofficially downtown Río Piedras ), is one of 18 barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [3] [4] [5] Rio Piedras Pueblo is what used to be the urban center- barrio (downtown district) of the former municipality of ...
In Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities and 902 municipio subdivisions made up of 827 barrios and 75 barrios-pueblo. [a] There are also a number of subbarrios and communities. The following is a list of the 902 barrios, some of the subbarrios, including the 40 subbarrios of Santurce, which is a barrio of San Juan and a few communities ...
Carolina barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center ( seat) of Carolina, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,201. [1] [4] [5] [6] As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.