Corrales, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Corrales
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.4528°N -67.1307°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Aguadilla
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:2.41
Area Land Sq Mi:2.41
Area Water Sq Mi:0.00
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:7659
Population Density Sq Mi:3178.0
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:502
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Corrales is a rural barrio in the municipality of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,659. In Corrales barrio is Cabán, a Spanish; Castilian: comunidad.[2] [3] [4]

History

Corrales 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 combined population of Corrales and Caimatal Alto barrios was 1,158.[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 Corrales barrio:[12]

Spanish; Castilian: Apartamentos Galero, Cabán Viejo, Calle Alelí, Calle Húcar, Calle Yagrumo, Comunidad Cabán, Condominio Muñekís I, Reparto San Francisco, Reparto Santa Ana, Residencial Las Muñecas, Sector Angelito Cruz, Sector Carretera La Palma, Sector Villa Cardona, Sector Villa Estancia, Urbanización Cristal (Comunidad Corrales), Urbanización Estancias del Atlántico, Urbanización Esteves, Urbanización Jardines de Versalles, Urbanización Monte Azul, Urbanización Monte Rey, Urbanización Monte Verde, Urbanización Paseos del Canal, Urbanización Santa María, Urbanización Santa Marta, Urbanización Villa del Rocío, Urbanización Villa Estela, Urbanización Villa Linda, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Vista Verde (Cabán Nuevo).

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. 160. 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 AGUADILLA 035 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 30 January 2019 . 21 June 2020 . es . 25 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200625000843/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/035%20AGUADILLA.pdf . dead .