Garrochales, Arecibo, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Garrochales
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.4599°N -66.5955°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Arecibo
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:5.34
Area Land Sq Mi:5.32
Area Water Sq Mi:0.02
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:2433
Population Density Sq Mi:457.3
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:85
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Garrochales is a barrio located in the northeastern area of the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,433.[2] [3] [4]

Features and sectors

Garrochales's borders are Islote barrio and Barceloneta municipality on its north; Barceloneta on its east; Sabana Hoyos barrio on its south; and Factor barrio on its west.[5]

Barrios (which are like minor civil divisions)[6] 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.[7] [8]

The following sectors are in Garrochales barrio:[9] [10]

Spanish; Castilian: Comunidad San Luis, Sector Bethania, Sector Bosque Cambalache, Sector El Alto, Sector El Salao, Sector Factor II, Sector La PRRA, Sector Noriega, Sector Sabana, Sector Salao, Sector San Luis, Urbanización Haciendas de Garrochales, Urbanización Jardines de Bethania, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Villas de Garrochales.

History and demographics

Garrochales was in Spain's gazetteers[11] 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 Garrochales barrio was 950.[12]

The industry of Garrochales is cattle farming and dairy.[13]

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. Book: 1953 . Mapa de municipios y barrios - Arecibo - Memoria Núm. 31 . University of Puerto Rico . Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Oficina del Gobernador, Junta de Planificacion, Santurce, Puerto Rico . 33–34.
  6. 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 .
  7. Web site: Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget) . Puerto Rico Budgets. es. 28 June 2019.
  8. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
  9. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 026 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 19 October 2018 . 2 August 2020 . es . 15 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200615181200/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/026%20ARECIBO.pdf . dead .
  10. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027. Comisión Estatal de Elecciones. PR Government. 8 October 2019. 2 August 2020. es. 15 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200615181209/http://ww2.ceepur.org/es-pr/Desglose%20de%20Sectores/027%20ARECIBO.pdf. dead.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Web site: Rivera . Lilly . MARTINEZ DAIRY: UNA VAQUERÍA LOCAL QUE ALIMENTA A PUERTO RICO [A local cattle farm that provides Puerto Rico's nutritional needs] ]. indulacpr.com . 3 August 2020.

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