page_title: Barrios of Puerto Rico
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Barrios of Puerto Rico / Classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Barrio San Anton, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The motto reads: "Cuna de la bomba y plena", meaning "Cradle of the [Puerto Rican] bomba and plena", which are two types of dance developed on the island.
context_page_description: The barrios of Puerto Rico are the primary legal divisions of the seventy-eight municipalities of Puerto Rico. Each of Puerto Rico's 78 municipios are divided into geographical sections called barrios and in 2010 there were 902.
context_section_description: The United States Census Bureau recognizes 902 barrios in Puerto Rico. The US considers barrios to be similar to Minor civil divisions, used by 29 US states for census reporting.  As components of each municipality, each municipality has one or more barrios. Every municipality has at least one barrio called barrio Pueblo which is home to the largest urban area of the municipality, and the political seat of the municipality. Most municipalities have a single barrio named barrio Pueblo while others, most prominently the larger municipalities like the municipality of Ponce, may have a barrio Pueblo that is made of several barrios. Florida is the municipality with the fewest barrios, while Ponce, at 31, has the largest number.
  The US Census Bureau further breaks down some barrios in Puerto Rico into subbarrios. An example is barrio Segundo in Ponce which consists of subbarrios "Clausells" and "Baldorioty de Castro" (commonly shortened to just "Baldorioty"). With over 24 square miles, barrio Lapa in the northeast area of the municipality of Salinas, has the largest territorial area of any barrio in Puerto Rico. It is so large, it is actually larger than 10 of Puerto Rico's municipalities.
  Another subdivision that may exist within a barrio is a comunidad and are seen on the US Census Bureau data. Esperanza comunidad in Vieques is an example of a subdivision of a barrio which is not called a subbarrio but is called instead a comunidad.
caption: Sign showing entrance to Barrio San Antón, in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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