Official Name: | Palmarito |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Barrio |
Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
Subdivision Name: | Puerto Rico |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Corozal |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.93 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 4.93 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
Population Total: | 2227 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 451.7 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1982 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Palmarito is a rural barrio in the municipality of Corozal, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,227.[2] [3] [4]
Palmarito 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 Palmarito barrio was 770.[6]
Palmarito has of land area and no water area. In 2010, its population was 2,227 with a population density of .
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]
The following sectors are in Palmarito barrio:[10]
Spanish; Castilian: Parcelas Berio Nuevas, Parcelas Berio Viejas, Sector Albaladejo, Sector Chago Torres, Sector Che Díaz, Sector Eduardo Rivera, Sector El Riachuelo, Sector Félix Padilla, Sector Finito Santiago, Sector Frank Ortiz, Sector Geño Rivera, Sector Goyo Torres, Sector Los Molina, Sector Pifio Rivera, Sector Pimo Ortiz, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Estancias de la Montaña.
Spanish; Castilian: Sector El Cuatro, Sector El Perico (La PRA), Sector Finín Lozada, Sector La Gallera, Sector Los Montesino, Sector Los Peña, Sector Marciano Burgos, and Spanish; Castilian: Sector Radio Oro (La Emisora).