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Guerrero
Barrio
Lago Guerrero
Lago Guerrero
Location of Guerrero
Guerrero, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico is located in Caribbean
Guerrero, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Guerrero, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth  Puerto Rico
Municipality Aguadilla
Area
 • Total 2.25 sq mi (5.8 km2)
 • Land 2.23 sq mi (5.8 km2)
 • Water 0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2)
Elevation
348 ft (106 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total 3,406
 • Density 1,527.4/sq mi (589.7/km2)
  Source: 2010 Census
Time zone UTC−4 (AST)

Guerrero is a rural barrio in the municipality of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,406. In Guerrero barrio is Rafael Hernández, a comunidad.

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 Guerrero barrio was 638.

Features

The Guerrero Correctional Institution, one of the largest men's prisons in Puerto Rico, is located in Guerrero.

Lago Guerrero (Guerrero Lake) is a 32,000-square-meter reservoir located in Guerrero. Built in the 1930s, it is fed by the Guajataca Lake.

Historical population
Census Pop.
1900 638
1950 2,026
1980 1,822
1990 2,454 34.7%
2000 3,366 37.2%
2010 3,406 1.2%
U.S. Decennial Census
1899 (shown as 1900) 1910-1930
1930-1950 1980-2000 2010

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 Guerrero barrio:

Comunidad Rafael Hernández, Reparto La Ceiba, Sector La Paloma, Sector Muñiz, and Urbanización Jardines Guerrero.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Guerrero (Aguadilla) para niños

  • List of communities in Puerto Rico
  • List of barrios and sectors of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
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