Hato Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,980.
Hato Arriba 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 Hato Arriba barrio was 663.
On September 20, 2017, a section of PR-111 in Hato Arriba "almost disappeared completed" according to witnesses of the effects of Hurricane Maria. In late May 2019, a lane of PR-119, a principal road in Hato Arriba, collapsed due to heavy rain. This highway had experienced a visible depression with Hurricane Maria in 2017 and was on a project waiting list when it collapsed further.
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 sectors are in Hato Arriba barrio:
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