Official Name: | Abras |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Barrio |
Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
Subdivision Name: | Puerto Rico |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Corozal |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.8 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 3.8 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
Population Total: | 2077 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 595.3 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 581 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Abras is a rural barrio with a small urban area in the municipality of Corozal, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,262.[2] [3] [4]
Abras was in Spain's gazetteers[5] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Abras barrio was 1,183.[6]
Abras has of land area and no water area. In 2010, its population was 2,262 with a population density of .[7]
PR-821 is the main north-south road through Abras.[8]
A bridge listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico is between Abras barrio and Palmarejo barrio, also in Corozal.[9]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[10] 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.[11] [12]
The following sectors are in Abras barrio:[13]
Spanish; Castilian: Sector Cueva de Paca, Sector El Brillante, Sector Hoya Ranch, Sector La Alcoba, Sector La Calabaza, Sector La Pollera, Sector Los Ramos, Sector Los Torres, Sector Marcelo Rosado, Sector Parcelas, Sector Víctor Pantojas, Urbanización Vista del Río I, Urbanización Vista del Río II, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Vista del Río III.
Spanish; Castilian: Sector Carretera (from La Capilla to Sector Sandoval), Sector Chago Adorno, Sector Charol, Sector El Convento, Sector La Capilla, Sector La Escuelita, Sector Lorenzo Agosto, Sector Los Bruno, and Spanish; Castilian: Sector Sandoval.
Spanish; Castilian: Sector Adolfa, Sector Balalaika, Sector El Batey, Sector Los Bruno, Sector Los Mudos, Sector Los Rolones, Sector Los Rosado, Sector Los Torres, Urbanización Jardines de Mavilla, Urbanización Las Brisas, Urbanización Quintas de Plaza Aquarium, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización San Rafael.