Calabazas, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico


Calabazas is a barrio in the municipality of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,675.

History

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Calabazas barrio was 1,891.

Sectors

Barrios in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores. The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.
The following sectors are in Calabazas barrio:
Carretera 900,
Parcelas Nuevas,
Sector Calabazas Arriba,
Sector Guayabo,
Sector Playita Arriba,
Sector Playita,
Sector Rincón,
Sector Sodoma o Calabazas Adentro,
Sector Vieques,
Sector Villa Kilí,
Sector y Parcelas Rosa Sánchez,
Urbanización Jaime C. Rodríguez,
Urbanización Santa María, and Urbanización Valles de las Calabazas.