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