Fránquez, Morovis, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Fránquez
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.3553°N -66.4185°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Morovis
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:4.2
Area Land Sq Mi:4.2
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:4583
Population Density Sq Mi:1091.2
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:443
Postal Code Type:Zip code
Postal Code:00687

Fránquez is a barrio in the municipality of Morovis, Puerto Rico. Fránquez has twelve sectors and its population in 2010 was 4,583.[2] [3] [4]

History

Fránquez 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 Fránquez barrio was 695.[6]

Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Morovis was hit hard by Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017. More than six months after Hurricane Irma, which had occurred just prior to Maria, the community's school still remained without power and an indignant population voiced their anger.[7]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[8] 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.[9] [10]

The following sectors are in Fránquez barrio:[11]

Spanish; Castilian: Comunidad Fránquez, Sector Alianza, Sector Dávila, Sector Los Rosario, Sector Meléndez, Sector Narváez, Sector Pabón, Sector Pedro Meléndez Sánchez, Sector Rolón, Sector Rosado, Sector Socucho, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización La Alianza.

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 . 2019-01-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181226171916/https://archive.org/details/nuevageografad00pic/page/247 . 2018-12-26 . live .
  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. 2019-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20170220183043/https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo35934/cph-2-53.pdf. 2017-02-20. live.
  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. 2020-03-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115044918/http://archive.org/details/informesobreelc00joangoog. 2012-11-15. live.
  7. Web site: Escuela en Morovis lleva 200 días sin energía [School in Morovis has been without power for 200 days]]. wapa tv. es. 2019-05-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20190531110305/https://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/escuela-en-morovis-lleva-200-dias-sin-energia_20131122425452.html. 2019-05-31. live.
  8. 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 .
  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. https://web.archive.org/web/20190628234856/http://www.presupuesto.pr.gov/Presupuesto2015-2016/PresupuestosAgencias/229.htm. 28 June 2019. live.
  10. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20180914224408/http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/Leyes2001/lex2001001.htm. 14 September 2018. live.
  11. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL MOROVIS 020. Comisión Estatal de Elecciones. PR Government. 8 October 2019. 24 June 2020. es. 15 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200615181234/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/020%20MOROVIS.pdf. dead.

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