Ala de la Piedra | |
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Barrio | |
Coordinates: 18°10′47″N 66°30′38″W / 18.179757°N 66.510465°W[1] | |
Commonwealth | Puerto Rico |
Municipality | Orocovis |
Area | |
• Total | 5.56 sq mi (14.4 km2) |
• Land | 5.51 sq mi (14.3 km2) |
• Water | 0.05 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
Elevation | 2,123 ft (647 m) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 419 |
• Density | 76/sq mi (29/km2) |
Source: 2010 Census | |
Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Ala de la Piedra is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 419.[3][4][5]
Further information: List of barrios and sectors of Orocovis, Puerto Rico |
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[6] 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.[7][8][9][10][11]
The following sectors are in Ala de la Prieta barrio:[12]
Sector Divisoria, Sector Doña Juana, Sector El Frío, Sector El Guineo, and Sector La Torre.
Ala de la Piedra was in Spain's gazetteers[13] 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 Ala de la Piedra and Orocovis barrios was 1,403.[14]
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1910 | 629 | — | |
1920 | 884 | 40.5% | |
1930 | 1,414 | 60.0% | |
1940 | 1,054 | −25.5% | |
1950 | 784 | −25.6% | |
1960 | 587 | −25.1% | |
1970 | 554 | −5.6% | |
1980 | 390 | −29.6% | |
1990 | 449 | 15.1% | |
2000 | 418 | −6.9% | |
2010 | 419 | 0.2% | |
U.S. Decennial Census 1900 (N/A)[15] 1910-1930[16] 1930-1950[17] 1980-2000[18] 2010[19] |
There is a camping site managed by a community center at Ala de la Piedra.[20]