Mamey is a barrio in the municipality of

Aguada, Puerto Rico Aguada (; , ), originally San Francisco de Asís de la Aguada, is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico, located in the western coastal valley region bordering the Atlantic Ocean, east of Rincón, west of Aguadilla and Moca; and north of Añ ...

. Its population in 2010 was 2,400.

History

Puerto Rico was ceded by

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in the aftermath of the

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under the terms of the

Treaty of Paris of 1898 The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898 ( fil, Kasunduan sa Paris ng 1898; es, Tratado de París de 1898), was a treaty signed by Spain and the United Stat ...

and became an

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. In 1899, the

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conducted a

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of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Mamey barrio was 558.

Sectors

Barrios (which are like

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) 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 Mamey barrio: , and .

References

External links

* Barrios of Aguada, Puerto Rico {{AguadaPR-geo-stub

History

Sectors

See also

References

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