Tejas, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico
Tejas is a barrio in the municipality of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 9,488.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 Tejas barrio was 948. At that time, the municipality was called Piedras and the barrio was called Tejas Alto.
