Cordillera, Ciales, Puerto Rico
barrio in Ciales, Puerto Rico
Cordillera is a barrio in the municipality of Ciales, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,348.
History
Cordillera was in Spain's gazetteers 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. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Cordillera barrio was 1,425.
Sectors
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) 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.
The following sectors are in Cordillera barrio:
Camino Los Pagán, Carretera 146, Comunidad Ortega, Comunidad Villalobos, Parcelas Alturas de Cordillera (Parcelas Nuevas), Parcelas Cordillera, Sector El Cinco, Sector El Seis, Sector El Siete, Sector El Tres, and Sector Sonador.
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