Ala de la Piedra


Ala de la Piedra is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 419.

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 Ala de la Prieta barrio:
Sector Divisoria, Sector Doña Juana, Sector El Frío, Sector El Guineo, and Sector La Torre.

History

Ala de la Piedra 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 combined population of Ala de la Piedra and Orocovis barrios was 1,403.
There is a camping site managed by a community center at Ala de la Piedra.