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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.
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 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.
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 ...
Puerto Rico Highway 140 (PR-140) is a road that travels from Jayuya, Puerto Rico to Barceloneta, passing through Utuado, Ciales and Florida. [3] This highway begins at PR-143 in Pica barrio and ends at PR-2 in Florida Afuera barrio.
Puerto Rico Highway 26 (PR-26), [a] called the Román Baldorioty de Castro Expressway, is the main highway to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and is connected to PR-66. [2] It was converted to a freeway to minimize the traffic in PR-3 and PR-17 , to grant better access to the Airport.
The entire length of PR-201 is part of the old Road No. 69, [4] a highway that led from Florida to Llave until the 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering, a process implemented by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (Spanish: Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) that increased the insular highway network to connect existing routes with different locations ...