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Juan González, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Juan González is a rural Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrio in the municipality of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. History Juan González was in Spain's gazetteers until 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 Insular area, 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 Portugués (Adjuntas), Portugués barrio and Juan González barrio was 1,235. See also * List of communities in Puerto Rico References External links * Barrios of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico {{AdjuntasPR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cidra River
The Cidra River () is a river of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Cidra is a tributary to the Río Grande de Arecibo river. See also * List of rivers of Puerto Rico List of rivers in Puerto Rico ( U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then alphabetically. There are 47 main rivers and 24 lagoons or reservoirs. Most of Puerto Rico's rivers originate in the . There are four slopes through which rainw ... References External links * USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974) Rivers of Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugués (Adjuntas)
* Bartolomeu Português, Portuguese buccaneer who attacked Spanish shipping in the late 1660s
* Deportivo Portugués, Venezuelan football club
Portugues and variants may refer to: * Portugués, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, a barrio * Portugués Rural or just Portugués, one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico *Portugués Urbano, one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico * Portugués River in Puerto Rico ** Portugués Dam *Português (cigarette) (named Português Suave until 2001) was a Portuguese brand of cigarettes manufactured by Tabaqueira, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International. See also |
Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Department Of War
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the United States Department of the Navy, Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the United States Department of the Air Force, Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947. The United States Secretary of War, secretary of war, a civilian with such responsibilities as finance and purchases and a minor role in directing military affairs, headed the War Department throughout its existence. The War Department existed for 158 years, from August 7, 1789, to September 18, 1947, when it split into the United States Department of the Army, Department of the Army and the United States Department of the Air Force, Department of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insular Area
In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia. This includes fourteen Territories of the United States, U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three sovereign states each with a Compact of Free Association with the United States. The term also may be used to refer to the previous status of the Swan Islands, Honduras, Swan Islands, Hawaii, and the Philippines, as well as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands when it existed. Three of the U.S. territories are in the Caribbean Sea, eleven are in the Pacific Ocean, and all three freely associated states are also in the Pacific. Two additional Caribbean territories are disputed and administered by Colombia. Article Four of the United States Constitution#Clause 2: Property Clause, Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution grants to the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, was signed by Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, and marked the end of the Spanish–American War. Under it, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to territories described there as ''the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones, the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands, and comprehending the islands lying within the following line:'' (details elided), to the United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a compensation of $20 million from the United States to Spain.Puerto Rico is spelled as "Porto Rico" in the treaty. The treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged. It was the first treaty negotiated between the two governments sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acquiring sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and establishing a protectorate over Cuba. It represented U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence and Philippine Revolution, with the latter later leading to the Philippine–American War. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries of Spanish presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the United States meanwhile not only became a major world power, but also gained several island possessions spanning the globe, which provoked rancorous debate over the wisdom of expansionism. The 19th century represented a clear decline for the Spanish Empire, while the United States went from a newly founded country to a rising power. In 1895, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazetteer
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or wikt:directory, directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.Aurousseau, 61. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or continent. Content of a gazetteer can include a subject's location, dimensions of peaks and waterways, statistical population, population, gross domestic product and literacy rate. This information is generally divided into topics with entries listed in alphabetical order. Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek gazetteers are known to have existed since the Hellenistic civilization, Hellenistic era. The first known Chinese gazetteer was released by the first century, and with the age of print media in History of typography in East Asia, China by the ninth century, the Gentry (China), Chinese gentry became invested in producing gazetteers for their local areas as a source of information as well as local pride. The geographer Stepha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garzas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Garzas is a rural barrio in the municipality of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,337. Features Near the Garzas River is , a tiered waterfall on the in Garzas, located at GPS coordinates and can be accessed from PR-522. History Garzas was in Spain's gazetteers until 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 Garzas barrio was 1,425. See also * List of communities in Puerto Rico In the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities serving as second-level administrative divisions, and 902 barrios proper, consisting of 828 barrios and 74 barrios-pueblos, serving as third-level divisions. Barrios are s ... References Barrios of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico {{AdjuntasPR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrios Of Puerto Rico
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the third-level administrative divisions defined with geographic boundaries serving as the primary legal divisions of the 78 municipalities in the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico. Amounting to 902 wards or boroughs equivalent to minor civil divisions in the U.S., like cities, townships, and parishes, barrios are under the political authority of the elected strong mayor and unicameral legislature governing the municipality within which they are located. Barrios are subdivided into numerous subbarrios, districts, communities, and/or sectors. Except for San Juan, Ponce, Florida, and Vieques, all municipalities have a barrio equivalent to a ''downtown'' area in the U.S. called ''pueblo,'' officially known as ''barrio-pueblo'' (literally "neighborhood-town"), which typically is the site of the historic Spanish colonial settlement, administrative center, and urban core of the municipality. Of the 902 barrios proper, 828 are barrios and 74 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
