• Source: Tejas, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

Tejas is a barrio in the municipality of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,044.




History


Tejas 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 Tejas barrio was 933.




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 Tejas barrio:
Carretera 639,
Sector Los Tres Puntos,
Sector Piedra Azul,
Sector Tejas Afuera y Adentro, and Sector Valerio Velázquez.




See also



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




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
• Tejas, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
• Tejas
• Humacao, Puerto Rico
• Las Piedras, Puerto Rico
• List of barrios and sectors of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
• Guayabota
• Puerto Rico Highway 908
• List of communities in Puerto Rico
• Puerto Rico Highway 198