Saltos facts for kids

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Barrio
Location of Saltos within the municipality of Orocovis shown in red
Saltos Location in Caribbean
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Orocovis
Area
• Total	8.45 sq mi (21.9 km2)
• Land	8.45 sq mi (21.9 km2)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	3,064 ft (934 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	3,238
• Density	383.2/sq mi (148.0/km2)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Saltos is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,238.

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 Saltos barrio:

Sector Saltos Díaz, Sector Colí, Sector Los Chorritos, Sector Puente Doble, Sector Blandito, Sector El Hoyo, Sector Gallera, Sector La Nueva Ola, Sector Pachín García, Sector Félix Rosado, Sector Miraflores, Sector La Sector Parroquia, Sector Los Meléndez, Sector Sector Los Reyes, Sector Felipe Rubero, Sector El Sector Parque, Sector Félix Medina, Sector La Sector Charca, Sector El Jíbarito, Sector Los Alvarado, Sector La Torrefacción, Sector Tito Medina, Sector Head Start, Sector Barrio Pellejas I y II, Sector Los Mercado, Sector Los Miranda, Sector Los Suárez, Sector Luis Torres, Sector Monchito Colón, Sector Luis Sáez, Vicente Serrano, and Sector Rafa Colón.

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 Saltos barrio was 1,037.

See also

In Spanish: Saltos (Orocovis) para niños

• List of communities in Puerto Rico