Bayamoncito, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico


Bayamoncito Barrio is a barrio in the municipality of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,738.

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 Bayamoncito barrio was 765.

Special Communities

In 2001, law 1-2001 was passed to identify marginalized communities of Puerto Rico. In 2017, Governor Ricardo Rosselló created a new government agency to work with the Special Communities of Puerto Rico Program. Las Parcelas in Bayamoncito is one of the 742 places on the list of Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico.