Quebrada Infierno, Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Barrio of Puerto Rico
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Quebrada Infierno is a barrio in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 773.[3][4][5]
Quebrada Infierno | |
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Barrio | |
Location of Quebrada Infierno within the municipality of Gurabo shown in red | |
  Quebrada Infierno Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°17′56″N 65°59′42″W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Gurabo |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.75 sq mi (4.5 km2) |
| • Land | 1.75 sq mi (4.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 551 ft (168 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 773 |
| • Density | 441.7/sq mi (170.5/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
| ZIP Code | 00778 |
History
Quebrada Infierno 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 Quebrada Infierno and Navarro barrios was 1,093.[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][17][18]
The following sectors are in Quebrada Infierno barrio:[19]
Los Corcino, Sector Aponte, Sector Brígido Adorno, Sector Delgado, Sector Díaz Ayala, Sector Díaz Rodríguez, Sector El Silencio, Sector La Agrícola, Sector Lomas del Viento, Sector Los Arroyo, Sector Los Mudos, Sector Los Pinos, Sector Medina, Sector Santa Rita, Sector Tulo Alemán, and Sector Villanueva.
