Piletas
Piletas
Piletas Arce | |
|---|---|
Barrio | |
 Sign for entrance to Piletas Arce barrio | |
  Piletas | |
| Coordinates: 18°20′05″N 66°52′56″W / 18.334840499999999°N 66.882274699999996°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality | 
Lares |
| Elevation | 1,148 ft (350 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 5,671 |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Piletas is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,671.[2][3][4]
History
When after the Treaty of Paris (1898), the U.S. conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, the population of Piletas barrio was 2,455.[5]
In 2017, as Puerto Rico and Lares continued to struggle economically, it was decided that unused public schools, including one in Piletas Arce (on Puerto Rico Highway 129), would be transformed for use by the agricultural industry of Lares.[6]
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piletas Barrio
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
- ^ 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. 160.
- ^ Services, Inter News. "DTOP traspasa escuelas en desuso al municipio de Lares". Metro (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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