Magueyes Urbano

Magueyes Urbano
Location of barrio Magueyes Urbano within the municipality of Ponce shown in red
Location of barrio Magueyes Urbano within the municipality of Ponce shown in red
Magueyes Urbano is located in Caribbean
Magueyes Urbano
Magueyes Urbano
Location of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°01′29″N 66°38′12″W / 18.024711°N 66.636736°W / 18.024711; -66.636736[1]
Commonwealth Puerto Rico
Municipality Ponce
Area
 • Total1.24 sq mi (3.2 km2)
 • Land1.24 sq mi (3.2 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation338 ft (103 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total1,132
 • Density912.9/sq mi (352.5/km2)
 Source: 2010 Census
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)

Magueyes Urbano is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Canas Urbano, Machuelo Abajo, Portugués Urbano, and San Antón, Magueyes Urbano is one of the municipality's five originally rural barrios that are now also part of the urban zone of the city of Ponce. The name of this barrio is of native Indian origin.[3] It was created in 1953.[4]

  1. ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Magueyes Urbano barrio
  3. ^ Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo. Hacia un Estudio Integral de la Toponimia del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ph. D. dissertation. May 1999. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Graduate School. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Page 54.
  4. ^ Barrios de Ponce. Archived 30 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Antepasados Esclavos.(From: Pedro Tomás de Córdoba. Memorias geográficas, históricas, económicas y estadísticas de la Isla de Puerto Rico.) Retrieved 28 November 2014.

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