Cerro Gordo is a barrio in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,018.
Cerro Gordo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the SpanishâÂÂAmerican 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 population of Cerro Gordo was 843.
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions) in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.
The following neighborhoods are in Cerro Gordo barrio:
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During the 2019-2020 Puerto Rico earthquakes the Lydia Meléndez School in Asomante barrio served as a refuge for residents, from Cerro Gordo, Las MarÃÂas and Atalaya barrios, who had to leave their damaged homes.