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The metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto each have over 2 million inhabitants [citation needed]. In these areas, families live in apartment blocs, each apartment usually having two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and one or two bathrooms. Most properties have been built since the 1970s, and especially since the turn of the millennium.
Río Grande barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Río Grande, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 1,772. [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.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Río Grande is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1] The barrios and subbarrios, [ 2 ] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English).
Port activities in the town date back to 1737, the year the city was founded, however the construction of Porto Velho do Rio Grande began in 1869 and its inauguration took place on October 11, 1872. On June 2, In 1910 the execution of Porto Novo began, which came into operation on November 15, 1915, with the delivery to traffic of the first 500 ...
Porto Grande (Portuguese: Grand Harbor, [ˈpoʁtu ˈgɾɐ̃dʒi]) is a municipality located in the southeast of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 22,452 [ 1 ] and its area is 4,425 km 2 .
Zarzal is a barrio in the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 14,314. [3] [4] [5] History.
Río Grande 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.
Río Grande is on the northeastern coast of the island north of the Sierra de Luquillo. [7] A large portion of El Yunque National Forest and some of the highest points of the Sierra de Luquillo are located within Río Grande including El Yunque and El Toro, which at 3,474 feet (1,070 m) is the highest point in eastern Puerto Rico.