Piñales, Añasco, Puerto Rico

Piñales is a barrio in the municipality of Añasco, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,875.^[3][4][5]

Piñales
Barrio
Location of Piñales within the municipality of Añasco shown in red
Piñales Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°18′01″N 67°10′22″W[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Añasco
Area [1]
• Total	2.54 sq mi (6.6 km2)
• Land	2.54 sq mi (6.6 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation [2]	66 ft (20 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	2,875
• Density	1,131.9/sq mi (437.0/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

History

Piñales 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 Piñales barrio was 1,038.^[7]

Piñales barrio became inaccessible when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 and caused landslides and destruction.^[8] Five months after the hurricane struck, engineers and officials were grappling with the massive amounts of repairs that were needed to PR-109 in Añasco and multiple other areas of this barrio and of Añasco, as a whole.^[9]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	1,038		—
1910	1,090		5.0%
1920	1,051		−3.6%
1930	831		−20.9%
1940	1,044		25.6%
1950	1,108		6.1%
1960	1,492		34.7%
1970	1,847		23.8%
1980	1,685		−8.8%
1990	1,788		6.1%
2000	2,163		21.0%
2010	2,875		32.9%
U.S. Decennial Census 1899 (shown as 1900)[10] 1910-1930[11] 1930-1950[12] 1980-2000[13] 2010[14]

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[15] 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.^[16][17][18]

The following sectors are in Piñales barrio:^[19]

Piñales Tino Matías, Sector Cuesta Juan Vega, Sector Hacienda Libertad, Sector La Choza, Sector Piñales Abajo, Sector Piñales Arriba, Urbanización Mansiones de Añasco, Urbanización Paseo del Valle, and Urbanización Valle de Añasco.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Añasco, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piñales 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. "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.
7. 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. 164.
8. "Añasco urge atención para recuperar carreteras, puentes y alcantarillados". La Isla Oeste (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
9. "Añasco urge atención para recuperar carreteras, puentes y alcantarillados". La Isla Oeste (in Spanish). 14 February 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
10. "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.
11. "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.
12. "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.
13. "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.
14. 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.
15. "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
16. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
17. Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón, ISBN 978-0-9820806-1-0
18. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
19. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL AÑASCO 040" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

External links

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piñales barrio