Pueblo is a barrio in the municipality of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,796. There is also the administrative center and seat called Rincón barrio-pueblo in this municipality, with a smaller population.

History Pueblo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Pueblo combined with Rincón barrio-pueblo was 1,074. The population was reported but combined with Rincón barrio-pueblo until the 1950 census when it was reported separately, as 1458.

Sectors Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.

The following sectors are in Pueblo barrio:

, and .

See also

List of communities in Puerto Rico List of barrios and sectors of Rincón, Puerto Rico

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