Piedras Blancas, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
Barrio of Puerto Rico
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Piedras Blancas is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,563.[3][4][5]
Piedras Blancas | |
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Barrio | |
Sign for PR-4111 to Piedras Blancas | |
 Location of Piedras Blancas within the municipality of San Sebastián shown in red | |
  Piedras Blancas Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°20′08″N 66°58′17″W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  San Sebastián |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.2 sq mi (5.7 km2) |
| • Land | 2.2 sq mi (5.7 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 423 ft (129 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 2,563 |
| • Density | 1,165/sq mi (450/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
History
Piedras Blancas was in Spain's gazetteers[6] 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 Cidral and Piedras Blancas barrios was 1,125.[7]
Sectors
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[13] 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.[14][15][16]
The following sectors are in Piedras Blancas barrio:[17]
Avenida Emérito Estrada Rivera, Barriada Segarra (Cuchilandia), Carretera 111, Carretera 119, Carretera 125, Sector Las Palmas (Escuela Bilingüe), Sector Lindín, Sector Los Pinos, Sector Tito Ríos, Urbanización Ubiñas, and Urbanización Valle Verde.
