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Río Hondo
Barrio
Location of Río Hondo within the municipality of Mayagüez shown in red
Río HondoLocation of Puerto Rico
Coordinates: 18°09′56″N 67°07′38″W / 18.165609°N 67.12733°W / 18.165609; -67.12733
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Mayagüez
Area
• Total	1.72 sq mi (4.5 km)
• Land	1.72 sq mi (4.5 km)
• Water	0 sq mi (0 km)
Elevation	92 ft (28 m)
Population
• Total	3,640
• Density	2,116.3/sq mi (817.1/km)
	Source: 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)

Río Hondo is a barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3640.

History

Río Hondo 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 combined population of Río Hondo barrio and Malezas barrio was 1,072.

Features

In 2018, over 65 acres of forest land in Río Hondo barrio were acquired by The Autonomous Municipality of Mayagüez in Puerto Rico, in partnership with a local, non-profit conservation group. The preservation of the Río Hondo Community Forest (Bosque Comunitario Río Hondo) is managed by the Proyecto Agro Eco Turístico del Barrio Rio Hondo Inc.

See also

• List of communities in Puerto Rico

References

1. ^ "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Hondo barrio
3. Picó, Rafael; Buitrago de Santiago, Zayda; Berrios, Hector H. Nueva geografía de Puerto Rico: física, económica, y social, por Rafael Picó. Con la colaboración de Zayda Buitrago de Santiago y Héctor H. Berrios. San Juan Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico,1969.
4. Gwillim Law (20 May 2015). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. McFarland. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
5. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. 2010.
6. "Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración. 1881". Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
7. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 164.
8. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
9. "Table 3-Population of Municipalities: 1930 1920 and 1910" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
10. "Table 4-Area and Population of Municipalities Urban and Rural: 1930 to 1950" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
11. "Table 2 Population and Housing Units: 1960 to 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
12. Puerto Rico: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts.pdf (PDF). U.S. Dept. of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
13. "Río Hondo Community Forest Fact Sheet" (PDF). USDA. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry. Retrieved 12 September 2021.

• Barrios of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico