Salto Abajo
Salto Abajo | |
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Barrio | |
 Highway in Salto Abajo | |
 Location of Salto Abajo within the municipality of Utuado shown in red | |
  Salto Abajo Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°17′12″N 66°42′37″W / 18.28657°N 66.710307°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Utuado |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.66 sq mi (6.9 km2) |
| • Land | 2.63 sq mi (6.8 km2) |
| • Water | 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2) |
| Elevation | 568 ft (173 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,929 |
| • Density | 1,493.9/sq mi (576.8/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Salto Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,929.[3][4][5]
History
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 a territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Salto Abajo barrio was 836.[6]
Gallery
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Puente La Hamaca in Utuado
See also
References
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salto Abajo barrio
- ^ Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
- ^ Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Puerto Rico:2010:population and housing unit counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
- ^ Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 161.
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