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787/939. Major routes. Vieques (/ viˈeɪkəs / ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjekes]), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together with Culebra, it is geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. Vieques lies about 8 miles (13 km) east of the mainland of Puerto Rico, measuring about 20 ...
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 Highway 201 in Florida barrio. ... Florida is a barrio in the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,821. [3] [4] [5]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Vieques 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).
The 18th and 19th century saw an increase in settlement in Puerto Rico with 30 municipalities being established in the 18th century and 34 more in the 19th century. Only six municipalities were founded in the 20th century with the last, Florida, being founded in 1971. [38] Map of Puerto Rico showing regional districts, 1886
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 ...
Municipalities. With an area of 1,438 sq mi (3,725 sq km) [4][5] and an estimated population of 2,035,733, the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area (MSA) is the largest and most populous in Puerto Rico, covering 40 of 78 municipalities in the eastern half of the main island. San Juan, Bayamón, Caguas, and Guaynabo are considered to ...
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. [1] Puerto Rico 's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios (English: wards or boroughs or neighborhoods) and, as of 2010, there were 902 of them. [2][3]