Canas Urbano | |
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.jpg) Scene in Barrio Canas Urbano at Avenida Las Américas, looking east, near Carretera Pámpanos | |
 Location of barrio Canas Urbano within the municipality of Ponce shown in red | |
  Canas Urbano Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°00′24″N 66°37′53″W / 18.006577°N 66.631387°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Ponce |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.31 sq mi (6.0 km2) |
| • Land | 2.31 sq mi (6.0 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 17,933 |
| • Density | 7,763.2/sq mi (2,997.4/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Canas Urbano is one of the 31 barrio of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Machuelo Abajo, Magueyes Urbano, Portugués Urbano, and San Antón, Canas 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 indigenous origin.[3] It was created in 1953.[4]
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Canas Urbano barrio
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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