Botijas facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Botijas
Barrio
Puerto Rico Highway 568 between Botijas and Mata de Cañas barrios
Location of Botijas within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Botijas Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area
• Total	4.94 sq mi (12.8 km2)
• Land	4.94 sq mi (12.8 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	2,028 ft (618 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	3,720
• Density	753/sq mi (291/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Botijas is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,720.

Sectors

Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) 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.

The following sectors are in Botijas barrio:

In Botijas (I): Sector Las Parcelas, Sector La Revés, Sector La Loma, Sector El Puente, Sector La Curva, Sector Manuel Cartagena, and Sector El Quenepo.

In Botijas (II): Sector Las Parcelas Sector Los Morales, Sector La Médica, Sector Rabanal, Sector El Puente, Sector Casablanca, Sector el Cruce de Mayo, Sector El Molino, Sector La Recta, Sector Las Marías, Sector Guillo Colón, Sector La Escuela, Sector Pello Pagán, Sector Manuel Berríos, and Sector Los Sandoval.

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 an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Botijas barrio was 891.

See also

In Spanish: Botijas (Orocovis) para niños

• List of communities in Puerto Rico