Cocos, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico Explained

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]

History

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]

Sectors

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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Gazetteer 2019. US Census . US Government.
  2. Book: 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. Book: Gwillim Law. Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. 25 December 2018. 20 May 2015. McFarland. 978-1-4766-0447-3. 300.
  4. Book: Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf . 2010. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau.
  5. Web site: Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881 . Biblioteca Nacional de España . es . 1614. 4 April 2023.
  6. Book: Joseph Prentiss Sanger. Henry Gannett. Walter Francis Willcox. Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office. 1900. Imprenta del gobierno. 161. es.
  7. Web site: US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition . factfinder.com . US Census . 5 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170513190743/https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm . 13 May 2017 . dead .
  8. Web site: Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas . José A. . Mari Mut . archive.org. 28 August 2013 . 19 June 2020. es.
  9. Web site: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
  10. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2019.
  11. Web site: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico. 8 August 2011. es. 24 June 2019.
  12. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL QUEBRADILLAS 031 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 21 September 2019 . 26 July 2020 . es . 26 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200726204241/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/031%20QUEBRADILLAS.pdf . dead .