Caonillas, Aibonito, Puerto Rico


Caonillas is a barrio in the municipality of Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,424.

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 combined population of Caonillas and Asomante barrios was 1,245.

Sectors

Barrios in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores. The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.
The following sectors are in Caonillas barrio:
Desvío Robles, La Vega, Parcelas Nuevas, Parcelas Viejas, Sector Bambúa, Sector Bejucos, Sector Corea, Sector El Coquí, Sector Escuelas, Sector La Tea, Sector Quenepo, and Sector Verdún.

Special communities

Since 2001 when law 1-2001 was passed, measures have been taken to identify and address the high levels of poverty and the lack of resources and opportunities affecting specific communities in Puerto Rico. Initially there were 686 places that made the list. By 2008, there were 742 places on the list of Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico. The places on the list are barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods and in 2004 Sector El Coquí in Caonillas made the list. In 2017, Jesus Velez Vargas, the director of the Special Communities of Puerto Rico program stated that the program was evolving with more ways to help the residents of these so-called marginal communities.