• Source: Guaniquilla, Aguada, Puerto Rico

Guaniquilla is a coastal barrio in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,663.




Features


Pico de Piedra beach and Guayabo River are located in Guaniquilla where an annual festival is held around June 24.




History


Guaniquilla 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 combined population of Rosario (not a current barrio of Aguada), California (not a current barrio of Aguada) and Guaniquilla (spelled Guanaguilla) barrios was 1,135.




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 Guaniquilla barrio:
Apartamentos Aguada Elderly,
Apartamentos Villarena Resort,
Calle Estación,
Urbanización Montemar,
Condominio Bahía Azul,
Condominio Elderly Apartments,
Extensión Los Robles,
Parcelas Palmar Novoa,
Reparto González,
Reparto Los Maestros,
Reparto Minerva,
Residencial Los Robles,
Reparto Hernández,
Sector Casualidad,
Sector Jaguey,
Sector Pico de Piedra,
Sector Pitusa o Tramo Carretera 115,
Sector Tosquero,
Sector Valle del Atlántico,
Sector Villa Santoni,
Tramo Carretera 441,
Urbanización Alturas de Aguada,
Urbanización Isabel La Católica, and
Urbanización Pública Francisco Egipciaco.
In Guaniquilla barrio is part of the Aguada urban zone.




See also



List of communities in Puerto Rico
List of barrios and sectors of Aguada, Puerto Rico




References






External links


U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Guaniquilla

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