Montes Llanos (also spelled Monte Llano), is one of the 31

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s in the

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Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce (, , , ) is both a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 16 ...

. Along with Magueyes, Tibes, Portugués, Maragüez,

Machuelo Arriba Machuelo Arriba is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with the barrios of Magueyes, Tibes, Portugués, Montes Llanos, Maragüez, and Cerrillos, Machuelo Arriba is one of the municipality's seven rural ...

, and Cerrillos, Montes Llanos is one of the municipality's seven rural interior barrios. It was created in 1898.

Location

Panorama en el Barrio Montes Llanos, Ponce, PR (DSC01651)

Montes Llanos is a mountainous rural barrio located in the central portion of the municipality, north of the city of Ponce, at latitude 18.118717 N, and longitude -66.139594 W. The

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, or origin of the name, is related to the old "Hato Llano" barrio. The name ''Montes Llanos'' relates to the term ''monte'', which in Spanish describes a natural but significant elevation of the surface of the land that is covered with trees, shrubs or other vegetation.

Boundaries

Montes Llanos is bounded on the North by

PR-505 Puerto Rico Highway 505 (PR-505) is a tertiary state highway in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Route description PR-505 runs north to south, in a general SSE direction, and mostly alongside Bayagán River in barrio Machuelo Arriba. Its southern terminus ...

(roughly), on the South by the hills north of Pastillo Road and El Cedro I Road, on the West by the hills west of Río Chiquito, and on the East by the hills west of Río Bayagan and PR-505 (roughly).General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico.
Retrieved March 15, 2010. Escuela Montes Llanos on PR-505 in Barrio Montes Llanos, Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC01658)

Escuela Montes Llanos on PR-505 in Barrio Montes Llanos, Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC01658)

In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Montes Llanos is bounded in the North by Barrios San Patricio and Maragüez, in the South by Portugués and

, in the West by Tibes, and in the East by Barrio Maragüez.

Demographics

Montes Llanos has of land area and no water area. In 2000, the population of Montes Llanos was 462 persons, and it had a density of 215 persons per square mile, making it the least populated barrio in the municipality. Montes Llanos is the least populated, though not the least densely populated, barrio in the municipality of Ponce. The community of Villas del Monte Verde is located in Montes Llanos. In 2010, the population of Monte Llano was 523 persons, and it had a density of 243.3 persons per square mile.

Geography

The highest point in barrio Montes Llanos stands at 2,394 feet and is located in the extreme northwest tip of the barrio.''Maptest.''
Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 14 November 2011.

Infrastructure

The main road serving Barrio Montes Llanos is

Notable Landmarks

Barrio Montes Llanos is home to the origin of the Río Chiquito. Rio Chiquito feeds into Rio Portugues just as they both enter the Ponce city limits to eventually empty as Rio Bucana into the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

opposite

Caja de Muertos Caja de Muertos (; also in English: ''Coffin Island'') is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce. The island and its surrounding waters are protected by the Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve, b ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Montes Llanos Barrio Montes Llanos 1898 establishments in Puerto Rico