Tibes

Tibes
Tibes
Barrio
	Tibes is home to the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center
	Location of barrio Tibes within the municipality of Ponce shown in red
	Tibes Location of Puerto Rico
	Coordinates: 18°05′12″N 66°38′04″W / 18.086749°N 66.634448°W
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Ponce
Area
• Total	6.99 sq mi (18.1 km2)
• Land	6.99 sq mi (18.1 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	1,099 ft (335 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	804
• Density	115/sq mi (44/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Tibes (Barrio Tibes) is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Together with Magueyes, Portugués, Montes Llanos, Maragüez, Machuelo Arriba, Sabanetas, and Cerrillos, barrio Tibes is one of the municipality's eight rural interior barrios. Tibes attracted attention recently when, in 1975, what was to become the discovery of the oldest cemetery in the West Indies came about as a result of rainstorms. The name of this barrio is of native Indian origin.^[3] It was organized in 1831.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tibes 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.