Miraflores, Añasco, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Miraflores
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.2791°N -67.0801°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Añasco
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:3.71
Area Land Sq Mi:3.65
Area Water Sq Mi:0.06
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:567
Population Density Sq Mi:155.3
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:151
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Miraflores is a barrio in the municipality of Añasco, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 567.[2] [3] [4]

Hurricane Maria

The barrio of Miraflores became inaccessible when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 and caused landslides and destruction.[5] Five months after the hurricane struck, engineers and officials were grappling with the massive amounts of repairs that were needed to PR-109 in Añasco and multiple other areas of this barrio and of Añasco, as a whole.[6] [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 Miraflores barrio:[11]

Spanish; Castilian: [[Puerto Rico Highway 109|Carretera 109]].

Special communities

Since 2001 when law 1-2001 was passed,[12] measures have been taken to identify and address the high levels of poverty and the lack of resources and opportunities affecting specific communities in Puerto Rico. Initially there were 686 places that made the list.[13] By 2008, there were 742 places on the list of Spanish; Castilian: Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico. The places on the list are barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods and in 2004, Miraflores had made the list.[13] [14] [15]

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: Añasco urge atención para recuperar carreteras, puentes y alcantarillados . La Isla Oeste . es . 9 September 2020.
  6. Web site: Añasco urge atención para recuperar carreteras, puentes y alcantarillados . La Isla Oeste . 14 February 2018 . es . 9 September 2020.
  7. Web site: Añasco Miraflores PR-109 Kilometer 13.4 . laislaoeste.com . 9 September 2020.
  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.
  10. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2020.
  11. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL AÑASCO 040 . Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 21 September 2019. 22 July 2020. es.
  12. Web site: Leyes del 2001. Lex Juris Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2019.
  13. Web site: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico. 8 August 2011. es. 24 June 2019.
  14. Web site: Evoluciona el proyecto de Comunidades Especiales. 24 February 2017. El Nuevo Dia. es. 24 June 2019.
  15. Web site: Ya es ley Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario. El Vocero de Puerto Rico. es. 24 June 2019.

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