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Barrio
Location of Bauta Arriba within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Bauta Arriba Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area
• Total	3.24 sq mi (8.4 km2)
• Land	3.24 sq mi (8.4 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	2,785 ft (849 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	913
• Density	281.8/sq mi (108.8/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Bauta Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 913.

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 Bauta Arriba barrio:

Sector Bauta Centro, Sector Puente Doble, Sector Los Marrero, Sector Los Meléndez, Sector Los Rivas, Sector Don Pei, Sector Garage Diego, Sector Luis Sáez, Sector El Tropical, Sector La Escuela, Sector La Aldea, Sector Jesús Meléndez, Sector Eduino Hernández, and Sector Sixto Rivera Jr.

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 combined population of Bauta Arriba and Pellejas barrios was 1,331.

See also

In Spanish: Bauta Arriba para niños

• List of communities in Puerto Rico