| Official Name: | Vacas |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.1533°N -66.4763°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Villalba |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.7 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 4.7 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 4049 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 861.5 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 2100 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Vacas is a barrio in the municipality of Villalba, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,049.[2] [3] [4]
Vacas 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 Vacas barrio was 1,841.[6]
During the 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes, three giant rocks ended up coming loose, rolling down a mountain and onto a home and crushed a car, in Vacas barrio.[7]
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 Vacas barrio:[11]
Spanish; Castilian: Carretera 561, El Mayoral Apartments, La Pulga, Sector Hacienda El Mayoral, Sector La Sierra, Sector Mogote (El Frío, El Bolo, El Cucurucho), Sector Vacas, (El Tamarindo, El Parque, El Negocio Chiripo, El Llano), Sector Vista Alegre, Urbanización Estancias del Mayoral II, Urbanización Estancias del Mayoral, Urbanización Luceros de Villalba, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Vista Alegre.