Hato Arriba, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Hato Arriba | |
|---|---|
Barrio | |
 Location of Hato Arriba within the municipality of Arecibo shown in red | |
  Hato Arriba Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°26′13″N 66°44′43″W / 18.436879°N 66.745201°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Arecibo |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.81 sq mi (12.5 km2) |
| • Land | 4.81 sq mi (12.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 8,495 |
| • Density | 1,766.1/sq mi (681.9/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Hato Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 8,495.[3][4][5]
Hilly in nature with some flat areas safe from flooding, Hato Arriba is largely a suburban residential area, including two parcelas and several subdivision developments (urbanizaciones) developed since the 1950s. Prior to that, it was largely composed of some residences amongst sugarcane and dairy land.
History
Hato Arriba was formerly part of the barrio known as Hato Grande. In 1823, most of the barrio became the new town of Hatillo, while the eastern half was divided into the barrios of Hato Abajo (near the coast) and Hato Arriba (in higher land to the south). In the 1950s, Operation Bootstrap, it's location by PR-129, which connected Arecibo and Lares, as well as being fully protected from the river flooding of the Rio Grande de Arecibo, led to many land owners converting their land to residential, with the goverment assigning some to it to house some of the existing residents in their own land in the Parcelas Navas and Parcelas Nuevas. Unlike Hato Abajo, which also houses both residential, industrial and commercial developments, and the residential and less evenly populated and prone to flooding Hato Viejo, Hato Arriba is heavily residential and evenly populated save from some karst foundations typical of the area.
Sectors
Barrios (which are like 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]
The following sectors are in Hato Arriba barrio:[10][11]
Sector Juncos, Urbanización El Monte, Urb. El Paraiso, Parcelas Navas, Parcelas Nuevas, Urb. Haciendas Toledo, Urb. Villa Toledo, El Junco, Boqueron, Jayuya, Urb. Las Brisas, Higuillales,, and Urbanización Paseo Los Ángeles.
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hato Arriba 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.
- ^ "US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition". factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 026" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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