Palmer (officially Sector Palmer) is a small settlement and
sector
Sector may refer to:
Places
* Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
* Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
* Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
* Spherical sector, a po ...
in the barrio
Mameyes II
Mameyes II is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,732.
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 b ...
of
Río Grande, Puerto Rico
Río Grande () is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the eastern edge of the Northern Coastal Valley, north of Las Piedras, Naguabo and Ceiba; east of Loíza and Canóvanas and west of Luquillo. Río Grande is spread over eigh ...
.
Overview
Located by highway
PR-3, Sector Palmer is the closest settlement to
El Yunque National Forest
El Yunque National Forest ( es, Bosque Nacional El Yunque), formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest (or ''Bosque Nacional del Caribe''), is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico. It is the only tropical rainforest in the United Sta ...
. The sector has a
United States Post Office
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U. ...
, a community center, stores and various establishments catering to both residents and visitors to the nearby rainforest. ''El Portalito Hub'', a temporary visitors center to El Yunque, opened in the neighborhood in 2019.
El Portal Rainforest Center
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
, located within the national forest, is currently closed for renovation after being damaged by
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Saffir–Simpson scale#Category 5, Category 5 Tropical cyclone, hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. It is regarded as the wo ...
in 2017.
Gallery
Puerto Rico Highway 191 - 2.jpg, PR-955
Puerto Rico Highway 191 - 1.jpg, PR-191
Juan Diego Falls in Río Grande, Puerto Rico.jpg, Juan Diego Falls near Palmer
See also
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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 Río Grande, Puerto Rico
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Río Grande is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. The barrios and subbarrios, in turn, are further subdivided ...
References
Río Grande, Puerto Rico
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