Official Name: | Cocos |
Settlement Type: | Barrio |
Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
Coordinates: | 18.4566°N -66.9126°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
Subdivision Name: | Puerto Rico |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebradillas |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.46 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.46 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
Population Total: | 4889 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 1987.4 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 459 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Cocos is a barrio in the municipality of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,889.[2] [3] [4]
Cocos 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 Cocos barrio was 978.[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 Cocos barrio:[12]
Spanish; Castilian: Calle La Ceiba, Calle Lucía Rivera, Calle Socorro, Calle Vicentita Delís, Carretera 482, Carretera 483, Carretera 485, Carretera Ramal 484, Extensión Lamela, Parcelas Los Cocos, Reparto Amador, Reparto Bordel, Residencial Francisco Vigo Salas, Residencial Villa Julia, Sector Arturo Jiménez, Sector Cuatro Calles, Sector Dámaso Soto, Sector El Verde, Sector Felipe Cruz, Sector Hoyo Brujo (Fito Valle), Sector Julián Hernández, Sector La Ceiba, Sector La Cuesta, Sector Lajas, Sector Las Piedras, Sector Los González, Sector Los Lugo, Sector Los Paganes, Sector Pallens, Urbanización Ávila, Urbanización El Retiro, Urbanización Hacienda Guadalupe, Urbanización Kennedy, Urbanización Las Ceibas (from km 99.1 of [[Puerto Rico Highway 2|Carretera 2]]), and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Villa Norma.