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The Real y Suprema Junta de Correos, established by Royal Decree of December 20, 1776, was the unique court in the postal area, and any civil or penal litigation, was its concern in any of its territories. With the Bourbon reforms, also the postal services were transformed. In 1794 the Ordenanza General de Correos, Postas y Caminos was ...
Florida 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.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Florida is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Florida is the second smallest municipality of Puerto Rico, with an area of 10 square miles. As the only municipality in Puerto Rico that has its urban area within the northern karst region (sometimes referred as the Northern Karst Hills), it is surrounded by low elevation, red clay and limestone haystack hills known in Caribbean Spanish as mogotes.
In 1983, Pueblo launched the Xtra Super Food Centers concept, a discount warehouse supermarket which allowed the customer to shop for groceries in a larger store format featuring lower prices with stores located in Puerto Rico and the state of Florida. The lower prices were made possible by the elimination of some services, such as baggers.
Paseo Víctor Rojas, also known as El Fuerte or Paseo de Damas (Ladies' Promenade), in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, [ 1 ] and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.
Moca barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Moca, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,735. [1] [4] [5] [6] As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio which was called pueblo and since 1990 has been named barrio-pueblo. It contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings ...
The following sectors are in Florida barrio: [17] Comunidad César “Coca” González, Sector Barrancón, Sector Gobeo, Sector Martineau, Sector Monte Santo, Sector Monte Santo Playa, Sector PRRA, Sector Tortuguero, Sector Villa Borinquen, Urbanización Brisas Las Marías, Urbanización Ciudad Dorada, Urbanización Estancias de Isla Nena ...