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Guaniquilla is a coastal
barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residenti ...
in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,663.


Features

Pico de Piedra beach and Guayabo River are located in Guaniquilla where an annual festival is held around June 24.


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 Rosario (not a current barrio of Aguada), California (not a current barrio of Aguada) and Guaniquilla (spelled Guanaguilla) barrios was 1,135.


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 Guaniquilla barrio: , and . In Guaniquilla barrio is part of the Aguada urban zone.


See also

*
List of communities in Puerto Rico In Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities and 902 municipio subdivisions made up of 827 barrios and 75 barrios-pueblo. There are also a number of subbarrios and communities. The following is a list of the 902 barrios, some of the subbarrios, i ...
*
List of barrios and sectors of Aguada, Puerto Rico Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Aguada is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, (and means ''wards'' or ''boroughs'' or ''neighborhoods'' in English). The barrios and su ...


References


External links

* {{GNIS, 2415447, Guaniquilla Barrios of Aguada, Puerto Rico