Sabana Hoyos, Arecibo, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:Sabana Hoyos
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.3769°N -66.6121°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Arecibo
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:23.02
Area Land Sq Mi:23.00
Area Water Sq Mi:0.02
Population As Of:2010
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Population Total:10745
Population Density Sq Mi:467.2
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Elevation Ft:751
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

Sabana Hoyos is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 10,745.[2] [3] [4]

Sabana Hoyos is the largest barrio of Puerto Rico.[5]

History

Sabana Hoyos was in Spain's gazetteers[6] 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 Sabana Hoyos barrio was 3,568.[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 Sabana Hoyos barrio:[11] [12]

Spanish; Castilian: Calle Las Brisas, Comunidad Moreda, Comunidad Nuevas Sabana Hoyos, Hacienda San José, Reparto Los Rosario, Sector Aldea, Sector Alianza, Sector Allende, Sector Asomante, Sector Ballajá, Sector Candelaria, Sector Carolina, Sector Comisión, Sector Córdova, Sector Fortuna, Sector Hacienda Las Abras, Sector Jovales, Sector La Alianza, Sector La Vega, Sector Las Arenas, Sector Las Correa, Sector Loma Correa, Sector Manantiales, Sector Méndez, Sector Montaña, Sector Riachuelo, Sector Román, Sector Segunda Unidad, Sector Villa Ferré, Sector Walcott, Urbanización Brisas de Manantiales, Urbanización Estancias de la Sabana, Urbanización Estancias Palma Real, Urbanización Flamboyanes, Urbanización Hacienda San Agustín, Urbanización Jardines de Candelaria, Urbanización Manantiales, Urbanización Mansiones de Manantiales, Urbanización Reparto Manantiales, Urbanización Reparto Santa María, Urbanización Reparto Vista Verde, Urbanización Sabana Gardens, Urbanización Sabana I, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Villa Fortuna.

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. News: Santiago . Manuel . Arecibo Asume El Alquiler De Cuartel De La Policía En El Barrio Sabana Hoyos . Isla news PR . January 31, 2019 . es.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  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 ARECIBO 026. Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 19 October 2018. 2 August 2020 . es.
  12. Web site: PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027. Comisión Estatal de Elecciones . PR Government . 8 October 2019. 2 August 2020 . es.