Hato Arriba, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Hato Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 8,495.^[3][4][5]

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 / 18.436879; -66.745201Coordinates: 18°26′13″N 66°44′43″W / 18.436879°N 66.745201°W / 18.436879; -66.745201^[1]
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Arecibo
Area ^[1]
• Total	4.81 sq mi (12.5 km^2)
• Land	4.81 sq mi (12.5 km^2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.0 km^2)
Elevation ^[2]	292 ft (89 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	8,495
• Density	1,766.1/sq mi (681.9/km^2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

History

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. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Hato Arriba barrio was 1,751.^[6]

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1900	1,751		—
1950	3,137		—
1980	5,803		—
1990	7,185		23.8%
2000	7,947		10.6%
2010	8,495		6.9%
U.S. Decennial Census^[7] 1899 (shown as 1900)^[8] 1910-1930^[9] 1930-1950^[10] 1980-2000^[11] 2010^[12]

Sectors

Barrios (which are roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)^[14] 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.^[15][16][17]

The following sectors are in Hato Arriba barrio:^[18][19]

Sector Juncos, Urbanización El Monte, and Urbanización Paseo Los Ángeles.

See also

•  Puerto Rico portal

• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

References

1. "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hato Arriba barrio
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
6. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 160.
7. "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
8. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
9. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
10. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
11. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
12. Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
13. "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
14. . factfinder.com. US Census. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
15. "Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)". Puerto Rico Budgets (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2019.
16. 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
17. "Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
18. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 026" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
19. "PRECINTO ELECTORAL ARECIBO 027" (PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.