Florida, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico


Florida is a barrio in the municipality of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,293.

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 Florida barrio was 807.

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 Florida barrio:
Camino Joaquín Corona, Camino Pedro Borges, Ramal 9929, Residencial Villas de San Lorenzo, Sector Acosta, Sector Artiri, Sector Arturo Hernández, Sector Camino Viejo, Sector Cendito Torres, Sector Contreras (Puerto Rico Highway 183, and Urbanización Los Flamboyanes.