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Guaynabo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈnaβo], locally) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico.Located west of the capital San Juan, east of Bayamón, south of Cataño and San Juan Bay, and north of Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrios and the downtown area and administrative center of Guaynabo Pueblo.
In Guaynabo, the 10 barrios are subdivided into a total of 520 sectors. Among those, 161 bear sector in their names. Those are typically rural sectors. 145 condominios (apartment buildings), 129 urbanización (residential areas), and 37 calle (street, also typically rural sectors).
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Guaynabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Guaynabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 4,008. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Guaynabo Pueblo: Historic parish church built between 1750 and 1775, it is the oldest building still-standing in Guaynabo. [6] 3: Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono: Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono: July 3, 2012 : 1729 José E. Carazo St.
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) [13] in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others. [14] [15] [16]
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The name camarones meaning "shrimp" in English comes from the Camarones River. Camarones was in Spain's gazetteers [6] 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.