Barahona is a

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in the municipality of

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. Barahona has thirteen sectors and its population in 2010 was 5,244.

History

Barahona was in Spain's

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s until Puerto Rico was ceded by

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in the aftermath of the

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under the terms of the

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and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the

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conducted a

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of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Barahona barrio was 854. After

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destroyed critical infrastructure in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, the Puerto Rico National Guard was tasked with providing people with potable water.

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 Barahona barrio: , and .

Education

Barrahona is home to the Ángel G. Quintero Middle School ().

Gallery

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