Mata de Cañas

Mata de Cañas (or Mata de Caña) is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 538.^[3][4][5]

Mata de Cañas
Barrio
Mural on Puerto Rico Highway 568 in Mata de Cañas
Location of Mata de Cañas within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Mata de Cañas Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°15′42″N 66°22′32″W[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area [1]
• Total	1.61 sq mi (4.2 km2)
• Land	1.61 sq mi (4.2 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation [2]	2,083 ft (635 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	538
• Density	334.2/sq mi (129.0/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Sectors

Further information: List of barrios and sectors of Orocovis, Puerto Rico

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[6] 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.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

The following sectors are in Mata de Cañas barrio:^[12]

Sector Berto Díaz, Sector El Jobo, Sector El Perico, and Sector Sopapo.

History

Mata de Cañas was in Spain's gazetteers^[13] 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 combined population of Mata de Cañas and Sabana barrios was 1,089.^[14]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1910	379		—
1920	501		32.2%
1930	456		−9.0%
1940	549		20.4%
1950	682		24.2%
1960	698		2.3%
1970	573		−17.9%
1980	584		1.9%
1990	516		−11.6%
2000	487		−5.6%
2010	538		10.5%
U.S. Decennial Census 1900 (N/A)[15] 1910-1930[16] 1930-1950[17] 1980-2000[18] 2010[19]

Gallery

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  A stretch of Puerto Rico Highway 568 in Mata de Cañas

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mata de Cañas barrio
3. 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.
4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
5. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
6. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
7. Mari Mut, José A. (28 August 2013). "Los pueblos de Puerto Rico y las iglesias de sus plazas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2020 – via archive.org.
8. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
9. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza : Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (Primera edición ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
10. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
11. "Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). 8 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
12. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL Orocovis 066" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). Junta de Planificación - Gobierno de Puerto Rico. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
13. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
14. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 165.
15. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
16. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
17. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
18. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
19. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.