Tierras Nuevas Poniente


Tierras Nuevas Poniente is a barrio in the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,614.

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 Tierras Nuevas Poniente barrio was 1,534.

Places of interest

Playa Cueva Las Golondrinas, where visitors have been cited for public indecency, is located in Tierras Nuevas Poniente. Puerto Rico does not have nudist beaches.