Tierras Nuevas Poniente

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

History

Tierras Nuevas Poniente 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. It 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 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.