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Demographically, municipalities in Puerto Rico are equivalent to counties in the United States, and Puerto Rican municipalities are registered as county subdivisions in the United States census. [2] Statistically, the municipality with the largest number of inhabitants is San Juan , with 342,259, while Culebra is the smallest, with around 1,792.
Puerto Rico Act 68 of 7 May 1945 (Ley Num. 68 de 7 de mayo de 1945), ordered the commonwealth's Planning Board to prepare a map of each of the municipalities and each of the barrios within said municipalities and the corresponding barrio names. Said map and list of barrio names constitute the officially established primary legal barrio divisions.
The original name of the city is San Antonio de Padua de Guayama, named after the saint Anthony of Padua; as with other settlement names in Puerto Rico, the name was eventually shortened to Guayama. Guayama comes from the name of a Taíno cacique (chief), who was leader of the tribes in the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico.
The official name of the entity in Spanish is Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico ("Free Associated State of Puerto Rico"), while its official English name is Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. [21] The Spanish official name was suggested by its architect Luis Muñoz Marín and adopted by a constitutional assembly on July 25, 1952.
Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 266. Item 1331. LCCN 92-75480; Juan Sisco Santiago. "Los barrios y sectores." La Perla del Sur. 23-29 Octubre 1985 p. 13; Mapa de Municipios y Barrios: Ponce, Memoria Numero 27. Gobierno del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Junta de Planificación. Santurce ...
In Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities and 902 municipio subdivisions made up of 827 barrios and 75 barrios-pueblo. [ a ] There are also a number of subbarrios and communities. The following is a list of the 902 barrios, some of the subbarrios, including the 40 subbarrios of Santurce, which is a barrio of San Juan and a few communities ...
Mapa de municipios y barrios - Jayuya - Memoria Núm. 68 (PDF). University of Puerto Rico: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Oficina del Gobernador, Junta de Planificacion, Santurce, Puerto Rico. 1955. Historia, imagen, y sentir de un pueblo: Jayuya – Aura Pierluissi de Rodríguez; En busca de mis ángeles – Iris de Jesus
US 2010 census map of Municipios, Municipio Subdivisions, Subbarrios, and Places of Isabela, Quebradillas, Camuy, Lares, Las Marías and San Sebastián showing a place called Hato Arriba in Hato Arriba barrio. Carretera 111; Carretera 125; Carretera 423; Parcelas Hato Arriba; Sector Anglada; Sector Bernal; Sector Campo Alegre; Sector Caña ...