Official Name: | Cacao |
Settlement Type: | Barrio |
Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
Coordinates: | 18.4548°N -66.9425°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
Subdivision Name: | Puerto Rico |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebradillas |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.44 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 4.39 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.05 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
Population Total: | 4663 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 1062.2 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 469 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,663. One of the communities within this barrio is named Cacao Community and in 2010 had a population of 1,001.[2] [3] [4]
Cacao 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 Cacao barrio was 1,066.[6]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[7] 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.[8] [9] [10] [11]
The following sectors are in Cacao barrio:[12]
Spanish; Castilian: Calle Las Rosas, [[Puerto Rico Highway 113|Carretera 113]], Carretera 477, Carretera 480, Estancias del Pirata, Estancias San Javier, Parcelas Chivas, Reparto La Romana, Sector Cubujón, Sector Juan Morell, Sector La Romana, Sector Lasalle, Sector Las Chivas, Sector Quin Ávila, Sector Talas, Urbanización Haciendas de Guajataca, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Santa Marina.