Oriente is one of the 18
barrios of the municipality of
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, most commonly refers to:
* San Juan, Puerto Rico
* San Juan, Argentina
* San Juan, Metro Manila, a highly urbanized city in the Philippines
San Juan may also refer to:
Places Arge ...
,
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
. It is composed of 3 subbarrios: Borinquen, López Sicardó, and San José. Before 1951, it was a
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 delimited by functional (e.g. residential, comm ...
of the former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of
Rio Piedras. In
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
, it had a population of 31,374. It is surrounded by the barrios of
Sabana Llana Norte to the east,
Sabana Llana Sur to the south,
Hato Rey Central and
Hato Rey Norte to the west, and
Santurce barrio and the
San Jose Lagoon to the north.
Demographics
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
{{San Juan, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Barrios of San Juan, Puerto Rico