• Source: Negros, Corozal, Puerto Rico

Negros is a rural barrio in the municipality of Corozal, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,398.




History


Negros 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 Negros barrio was 818.




Features and demographics


Negros has 2.97 square miles (7.7 km2) of land area and no water area. In 2010, its population was 1,398 with a population density of 470.7 inhabitants per square mile (181.7/km2).

PR-805 is the main east-west road through Negros.




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 Negros barrio:
Sector Acueducto,
Sector África,
Sector Carretera (from Amado Suárez to Iglesia Católica),
Sector La Hacienda,
Sector La Planá,
Sector Lorencito Frau,
Sector Los Gatos,
Sector Los Pérez,
Sector Los Quiñones,
Sector Parcelas,
Sector Pepín García, and Urbanización Los Hermanos.




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See also



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




References






External links


U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Negros barrio

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Negros, Corozal, Puerto Rico
• Corozal, Puerto Rico
• Orocovis, Puerto Rico
• Cuchillas, Corozal, Puerto Rico
• Geography of Puerto Rico
• Barranquitas, Puerto Rico
• Río de los Negros
• Puerto Rico Highway 805
• Puerto Rico Highway 807
• Corozal River