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24-820: In a clockwise direction, the valley is bound by the Altos de La Mesa and Altos de San Luis mountain ridges to the north, the Sierra de Luquillo in the northeast, the San Lorenzo Batholith in the east and southeast, the Sierra de Cayey in the south, and the foothills of the Cordillera Central in the west. This valley is fed mainly by the Río Grande de Loíza , the largest hydrological basin in Puerto Rico, and numerous tributaries such as

48-502: A barrio , and in this latter case the name of the sector can be—and most often is—different from the official barrio where it is located. An example of this non-official usage is the reference to Puerto Rican nationalist Don Pedro Albizu Campos as having been born in barrio Tenerias in Ponce yet, there has never been a barrio Tenerias in Ponce; Tenerias is a populated sector—a settlement—of barrio Machuelo Abajo . The problem

72-740: A barrio is a comunidad , as seen in Census data. Esperanza is a comunidad in Vieques and an example of a subdivision of a barrio which is not called a subbarrio but is called instead a comunidad . Outside of the Census data and in Puerto Rico barrios are divided by sectors. Municipios list their barrios and the sectors within them. Cañaboncito barrio in Caguas, for example, has over 90 sectors. The types of sectors ( sectores ) may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial , among others. While in

96-528: A critical habitat of the Puerto Rican plain pigeon ( Patagioenas inornata wetmorei ), locally known as the paloma sabanera , which until the 1970s was on the brink of extinction . This pigeon has been observed to nest, roost and feed on the habitat created by the secondary forest found here. 18°16′04″N 66°01′36″W  /  18.26778°N 66.02667°W  / 18.26778; -66.02667 This Caguas, Puerto Rico location article

120-485: A mandatory reference. For example, official legal matters dealing with land and property issues are heard on the basis of municipal locations relative to the officially recognized barrios and barrio boundaries. The 902 barrios of Puerto Rico represent officially established primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities that contain unique and permanent geographical land boundaries. Puerto Rico Act 68 of 7 May 1945 (Ley Num. 68 de 7 de mayo de 1945), ordered

144-544: Is Santurce (in San Juan) which has 40 subbarrios . Another example is barrio Segundo in Ponce which consists of subbarrios Clausells and Baldorioty de Castro (commonly shortened to Baldorioty). With over 24 square miles (62 km ), barrio Lapa in the northeast area of the municipality of Salinas , has the largest territorial area of any barrio in Puerto Rico, being larger in size than 10 of Puerto Rico's municipalities. Another subdivision that may exist within

168-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Barrios of Puerto Rico The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico . Puerto Rico 's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios (English: wards or boroughs or neighborhoods) and, as of 2010, there were 902 of them. The history of

192-637: Is an 886 feet (270 m) high and two-mile-long prominent mountain ridge located on the northern edge of the Caguas Valley , in the barrio of Bairoa in Caguas, Puerto Rico . The ridge is bordered by the Loíza River to the north and the east, and it forms part of a larger system of mountain ridges that extends from the southwestern end of the Sierra de Luquillo in Gurabo to the northeastern end of

216-513: Is home to the largest urban area of the municipality, and the political seat of the municipality. Most municipalities have a single barrio named barrio Pueblo while others, most prominently the larger municipalities like the municipality of Ponce , may have a barrio Pueblo that is made of several barrios. Florida is the municipality with the fewest barrios, while Ponce, at 31, has the most. The US Census Bureau further breaks down some barrios in Puerto Rico into subbarrios . One such example

240-485: Is identified as the barrio-pueblo . It is differentiated from other barrios in that it is the historical center of the municipality and the area that represented the seat of the municipal government at the time Puerto Rico formalized the municipio and barrio boundaries in the late 1940s. From time to time barrios are created, broken up, or merged. The downtown district of each town was called pueblo until 1990, when they began to be referred to as barrio-pueblo in

264-751: Is stated that the municipalities were subdivided, as needed, to facilitate voting and to ease the administration of each municipality. An analysis of the 1899 Puerto Rican and Cuban census, published by the War Department and Inspector General of the United States in 1900 listed the census population numbers by barrios of Puerto Rico. Barrio names continue to be an essential point of reference for purposes of municipal and state government property management, including land surveying and property sale, purchase, and ownership. Land and property deeds and surveys are all performed with barrio names as

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288-458: Is that populated places have been adopting names for themselves that do not appear in the official government maps, because such maps have not been updated, and there is no system in place for such updates. Puerto Rico barrio boundaries were established using landmarks such as "the top of a mountain", "the lot owned by Franscico Mattei", "the peak of a mountain ridge", "an almond tree" (árbol de húcar), and "to origin of Loco River". When describing

312-739: The Cagüitas , along which the contemporary settlement of Caguas was built. The name Valle del Turabo ("Turabo Valley") comes from the Turabo River , which is another tributary that flows from the south. The Gurabo River , another major tributary, feeds into the Grande de Loíza at a region where the valley narrows into a rift valley , often called the Gurabo Valley, that runs from west to east and ends in Las Piedras and Humacao in

336-634: The Cordillera Central in Aguas Buenas . Other mountains and hills along this system include the Altos de La Mesa and Cerro La Marquesa . These ridges are shaped by the Great Northern Puerto Rico fault zone (GNPRfz), an active fault zone which crosses the island diagonally from southeast to northwest. The forested area on the mountain ridge, known as Finca Longo , is protected by the municipality of Caguas as

360-544: The Gurabo River, have eroded most alluvial deposits within the fluvial flood zones. The climate of the Caguas-Juncos Valley is rainy, with areas receiving up to 100 inches of precipitation annually. Rain varies throughout the year with the dry period lasting from January to April, the rainiest period being from May to June, the driest period from July to August, and the period of heavy rains lasting until

384-541: The US Census, and contains the plaza, municipal buildings and a Roman Catholic church. In 1832 there were 490, in 1878 there were 841, in 1990 there were 899 barrios. The United States Census Bureau recognizes 902 barrios in Puerto Rico. The US classifies barrios as minor civil divisions for statistical purposes. As components of each municipality, each municipality has one or more barrios. Every municipality has at least one barrio called barrio Pueblo which

408-662: The boundaries of Las Piedras , the official 1952 document by the Puerto Rico Planning Board stated "the border continues through Cándido Márquez's and Jesús Barrio's farms until reaching a mamey tree . This tree is about 50 meters south of Leoncio Rivera's home..." As these descriptors tended to lend themselves to ambiguity and other problems, there was a 2002 initiative by the University of Puerto Rico to describe boundaries using GPS technology. The GPS coordinates of barrios of Puerto Rico are available via

432-413: The commonwealth's Planning Board to prepare a map of each of the municipalities and each of the barrios within said municipalities and the corresponding barrio names. Said map and list of barrio names constitute the officially established primary legal barrio divisions. However, often the word "barrio" is also (mistakenly) used in Puerto Rico in an unofficial manner to represent a populated sector within

456-554: The creation of the barrios of Puerto Rico can be traced to the 19th century, when historical documents first mention them. Historians have speculated that their creation may have been related to the Puerto Rican representation at the Cortes of Cádiz . The names of barrios in Puerto Rico come from various sources, mostly from Spanish or Indian origin. One barrio in each municipality (except for Florida , Ponce , and San Juan )

480-550: The end of the year. La India Dormida (Spanish for "the sleeping Indian [woman]") is a famous geographical landmark for locals in the Valley of Caguas. Although often called a mountain, this is actually a group of mountains that through forced perspective (when seen from the north) form the shape of a sleeping woman. According to legend, the Taíno cacique Caguax had a niece called Taina (or Tayana ) who sacrificed herself and

504-435: The past, barrios in Puerto Rico had political authority, each with their own elected mayor and " barrio councils", currently barrios in Puerto Rico are no longer vested with any political authority. Their purpose was originally for the collection of taxes, but during the 1800s any political authority barrios had been centralized in the municipal governments. In 1880 Spain's Nomenclature of its Territories publication, it

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528-593: The southeastern coast of the island. The Caguas Valley, from Caguas to Juncos , is formed by Holocene alluvial deposits that lay on top of hardened rock of volcanic origin, lava , and intrusive and metamorphic rocks that date from the Late Cretaceous to the Tertiary period. There are also small deposits of limestone. Except for the alluvium zone, the rocks in the basin do not generate large aquifers due to their low permeability . The alluvium in

552-400: The valley includes non-uniform mixtures of sand , gravel , silt and mud , varying in thickness from 0 feet in with consolidated rocks to 160 feet in Caguas and Gurabo. In the area towards Gurabo and Juncos the alluvium contains more sand and gravel than in the area of Caguas; these alluvial deposits form the main aquifer in the area. The flows of the Loíza River and its tributaries, mainly

576-496: Was turned into the mountain during the Spanish conquest of Borinquen (or Boriken , the native name for Puerto Rico). The best way to observe this optical illusion is from Altos de San Luis, Altos de La Mesa and on expressway PR-52 and highway PR-1 when driving from north to south through the valley. Altos de San Luis Altos de San Luis , also known as Monte Altos de San Luis ( Spanish for '' San Luis heights''),

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