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Florida is the second smallest municipality of Puerto Rico, with an area of 10 square miles. As the only municipality in Puerto Rico that has its urban area within the northern karst region (sometimes referred as the Northern Karst Hills), it is surrounded by low elevation, red clay and limestone haystack hills known in Caribbean Spanish as mogotes.
The Orlando metropolitan area is the center of the Puerto Rican population in Central Florida and there is large populations of Puerto Ricans throughout the region, with the largest populations in Orlando, Kissimmee, Poinciana, Buenaventura Lakes, Azalea Park, Meadow Woods, Pine Hills, Pine Castle, Lakeland, Deltona, St. Cloud, Union Park ...
Geologically separated from the Greater Antilles island of Hispaniola by the Mona Passage and from the Lesser Antilles island arc by the Anegada Passage, the main island of Puerto Rico, the Spanish Virgin Islands of Vieques and Culebra, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands except for the southernmost island of Saint Croix all lie on the same carbonate platform and insular ...
With an area of 1,438 sq mi (3,725 km 2) [4] [5] and an estimated population of 842,535 in municipalities in the conurbation and 1,193,198 in municipalities outside the urban area, the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area (MSA) is the largest and most populous in Puerto Rico, covering 40 of 78 municipalities in the eastern half of the main island.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, San Lorenzo is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Hispanic or Latinos of any race made up 69.6% of the population, Puerto Ricans alone made up 44.5 percent (11,618) of the area's population. [9] 6.5% of the population was under 5 years old, 26.4% was under 18 years old, and 11.5% was 65 years or older.
The Laws of the Indies, Spanish law, which regulated life in Puerto Rico in the early 19th century, stated the plaza's purpose was for "the parties" (celebrations, festivities) (Spanish: a propósito para las fiestas), and it was required to be proportionally large enough for the local population.
With over 24 square miles (62 km 2), barrio Lapa in the northeast area of the municipality of Salinas, has the largest territorial area of any barrio in Puerto Rico, [22] being larger in size than 10 of Puerto Rico's municipalities. Another subdivision that may exist within a barrio is a comunidad, as seen in Census data.