Indiera Fría is a

barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish word that means " quarter" or " neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, a ...

in the municipality of

Maricao, Puerto Rico Maricao () is a town and the second-least populous municipality of Puerto Rico; it is located at the western edge of the Cordillera Central. It is a small town set around a small square in hilly terrain, north of San Germán, Sabana Grande and ...

. Its population in 2010 was 449.

History

Indiera Fría is one of the three , the other two being Indiera Baja and Indiera Alta. Difficult to access, this geographic area served as a refuge for Taínos fleeing Spanish and other European colonizers, who began colonizing Puerto Rico in the 15th century. Puerto Rico was ceded by

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in the aftermath of the

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under the terms of the

Treaty of Paris of 1898 The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898 ( fil, Kasunduan sa Paris ng 1898; es, Tratado de París de 1898), was a treaty signed by Spain and the United Stat ...

and became an

unincorporated territory of the United States Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of the United States. The various American territories differ from the U.S. states and tribal reservations as they are not sover ...

. In 1899, the

United States Department of War The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, ...

conducted a

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Indiera Fria barrio was 1,165.

Gallery

Indiera Fría, Maricao, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg, in Indiera Fría in Maricao Indiera Fría, Maricao, Puerto Rico - panoramio (7).jpg, Waterfall in Indiera Fría

References

Barrios of Maricao, Puerto Rico {{MaricaoPR-geo-stub

History

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See also

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