La Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico


La Torre is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,574.

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 La Torre barrio was 2,008.

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 La Torre barrio:
Cerro La Torre,
Comunidad Los Milagros,
Finca Calcerrada,
Finca Delgado,
Finca Ostolaza,
Finca Silvestrini,
Hacienda Monserrate Finca Pay Méndez,
La Paragua,
La Vega Calcerrada,
La Vega de Los Acevedo,
Las Toldas,
Puente Blanco,
Sector Collazo,
Sector Isleta Camino Arana,
Sector Los Quemaos,
Sector Mercedes Estades,
Sector Morell,
Sector Tosquero, and
Tramo Puerto Rico Highway 128.