San Antón, Carolina, Puerto Rico Explained

Official Name:San Antón
Settlement Type:Barrio
Pushpin Map:Caribbean
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates:18.3876°N -65.9929°W
Coordinates Footnotes:[1]
Subdivision Type:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name: Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type1:Municipality
Subdivision Name1: Carolina
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:1.91
Area Land Sq Mi:1.91
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Elevation Ft:266
Population Total:13578
Population As Of:2010
Population Density Sq Mi:7146.3
Population Note:Source: 2010 Census
Timezone:AST
Utc Offset:-4
Postal Code Type:ZIP Code

San Antón is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 13,578.[2] [3] [4]

History

San Antón 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 San Antonio barrio (as it was called then) was 615.[6]

San Antón saw a 21.7% increase in population from 1990 to 2000 and a 29.7% increase from 2000 to 2010.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Gazetteer 2019. US Census . US Government.
  2. Book: Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios.. Picó. Rafael. Buitrago de Santiago. Zayda. Berrios. Hector H.. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
  3. Book: Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. Gwillim Law. 20 May 2015. McFarland. 978-1-4766-0447-3. 300. 25 December 2018.
  4. Book: Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
  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.