Bauta Arriba

Bauta Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 913.

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 Bauta Arriba barrio:
Sector Bauta Centro, Sector Don Pei, Sector Eduino Hernández, Sector El Tropical, Sector Garage Diego, Sector Jesús Meléndez, Sector La Aldea, Sector La Escuela, Sector Los Marrero, Sector Los Meléndez, Sector Los Rivas, Sector Luis Sáez, Sector Puente Doble, and Sector Sixto Rivera Jr.

History

Bauta Arriba 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 Bauta Arriba and Pellejas, [Orocovis, Puerto Rico|Pellejas] barrios was 1,331.