Maravilla Este


Maravilla Este is a barrio in the municipality of Las Marías, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 748.

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 Maravilla and Las Marías Pueblo barrios was 1,235. At the time, the census takers didn't distinguish between the current three separate Maravilla barrios.

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 Maravilla Este barrio:
Avenida Adrián Acevedo,
Calle Barbosa y Bernard,
Calle Rafael Quiles,
Comunidad Muñoz Torruellas,
Parcelas Acevedo,
Sector Agustín Torres,
Sector El Guasio,
Sector La Calzada,
Sector La Gallera,
Sector La Vega del Combate, and Sector Méndez.