Editing Bayamón, Puerto Rico (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Bayamon Puerto Rico aerial view.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Aerial view of northern Bayamón with [[mogote]] formations of the [[Northern Karst Belt]] and mouth of the [[Bayamón River]] visible, 1999]]
Bayamón lies on the northern coastal plain region and [[Northern Karst Belt]] in northeastern Puerto Rico. It is bordered by the municipalities of [[Toa Baja, Puerto Rico|Toa Baja]], [[Cataño, Puerto Rico|Cataño]], [[Comerío, Puerto Rico|Comerío]], [[Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico|Aguas Buenas]], [[Toa Alta, Puerto Rico|Toa Alta]], [[Naranjito, Puerto Rico|Naranjito]], and [[Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|Guaynabo]]. Bayamón has a surface area of 43.5 square miles (113.1 km2). The terrain is mostly flat, but it does include some large hills such as La Peña and Vergaras.<ref name="PR_Ency">{{cite web|url=https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/bayamon-municipality/|title=Bayamón Municipality|publisher=Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades (FPH)|website=enciclopediapr.org|access-date=2019-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618002420/https://enciclopediapr.org/en/encyclopedia/bayamon-municipality/|archive-date=2019-06-18|url-status=live}}</ref>

Bayamón is Puerto Rico's second-most populous municipality and is part of the large [[San Juan metropolitan area|metropolitan area]] centered around [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]. Other cities included in the metropolitan area are [[Guaynabo, Puerto Rico|Guaynabo]], [[Cataño, Puerto Rico|Cataño]], [[Toa Baja, Puerto Rico|Toa Baja]], [[Canovanas, Puerto Rico|Canóvanas]], [[Carolina, Puerto Rico|Carolina]] and [[Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico|Trujillo Alto]]. Bayamón is served by the [[Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport]]. Despite the city's size, it has no weather station.

===Water features===
The rivers that pass through Bayamón include the [[Río Bayamón]], [[Río Hondo (Bayamón, Puerto Rico)|Río Hondo]], [[Río Minillas]], [[Río Bucarabones]] and [[Río Cuesta Arriba]].

===Barrios===
[[File:Barrios of Bayamón, Puerto Rico locator map.jpg|thumb|Subdivisions of Bayamón]]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Bayamón is subdivided into [[Barrios of Puerto Rico|barrios]]. The municipal buildings, central square and large Catholic church are located in a small barrio referred to as {{lang|es|"el pueblo"}}.<ref name="Law2015">{{cite book|author=Gwillim Law|title=Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXCeCQAAQBAJ|access-date=25 December 2018|date=20 May 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0447-3|page=300}}</ref><ref name="2010 Census" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://welcome.topuertorico.org/maps/bayamon.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324204920/http://welcome.topuertorico.org/maps/bayamon.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-03-24 |title=Map of Bayamón at the Wayback Machine|access-date=2018-12-29 }}</ref>
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#[[Bayamón barrio-pueblo]]<ref name="Barrio-Pueblo">{{cite web |title=US Census Barrio-Pueblo definition |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm |website=factfinder.com |publisher=US Census |access-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513190743/https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/barrio.htm |archive-date=13 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
# [[Buena Vista, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Buena Vista]] 
# [[Cerro Gordo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Cerro Gordo]] 
# [[Dajaos, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Dajaos]] 
# [[Guaraguao Abajo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Guaraguao Abajo]] 
# [[Guaraguao Arriba, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Guaraguao Arriba]] 
# [[Hato Tejas, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Hato Tejas]] 
# [[Juan Sánchez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Juan Sánchez]] 
# [[Minillas, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Minillas]] 
# [[Nuevo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Nuevo]] 
# [[Pájaros, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Pájaros]] 
# [[Santa Olaya, Bayamón, Puerto Rico|Santa Olaya]]
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===Sectors===
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to [[minor civil divisions]])<ref name="Barrio-Pueblo"/> and subbarrios,<ref name="Census map">{{cite web |title=P.L. 94-171 VTD/SLD Reference Map (2010 Census): Bayamón Municipio 000, PR |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_000.pdf |website=www2.census.gov |publisher=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=22 August 2020 |archive-date=22 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822185002/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_000.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=P.L. 94-171 VTD/SLD Reference Map (2010 Census): Bayamón Municipio 001, PR |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_001.pdf |website=www2.census.gov |publisher=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=22 August 2020 |archive-date=22 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822185010/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_001.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=P.L. 94-171 VTD/SLD Reference Map (2010 Census): Bayamón Municipio 002, PR |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_002.pdf |website=www2.census.gov |publisher=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=22 August 2020 |archive-date=22 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822185008/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/pl10map/vtd_sld/st72_spanish/c72021_bayamon/PL10VTDSP_C72021_002.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> are further subdivided into smaller areas called {{lang|es|sectores}} (''sectors'' in English). The types of ''sectores'' may vary, from normally ''sector'' to ''urbanización'' to ''reparto'' to ''barriada'' to ''residencial'', among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presupuesto.pr.gov/Presupuesto2015-2016/PresupuestosAgencias/229.htm|title=Agencia: Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Socioeconómico y la Autogestión (Proposed 2016 Budget)|website=Puerto Rico Budgets|language=es|access-date=28 June 2019|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628234856/http://www.presupuesto.pr.gov/Presupuesto2015-2016/PresupuestosAgencias/229.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Rivera Quintero, Marcia | title=El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997–2004 | year=2014 | publication-date=2014 | publisher=San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón | edition=first | isbn=978-0-9820806-1-0 }}</ref><ref name="Law 1-2001">{{cite web|url=http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/Leyes2001/lex2001001.htm|title=Leyes del 2001|website=Lex Juris Puerto Rico|language=es|access-date=24 June 2020|archive-date=14 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914224408/http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/Leyes2001/lex2001001.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Special Communities===
{{See also|Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development}}
{{lang|es|Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico}} (Special Communities of Puerto Rico) are marginalized communities whose citizens are experiencing a certain amount of [[social exclusion]]. A map shows these communities occur in nearly every municipality of the commonwealth. Of the 742 places that were on the list in 2014, the following barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods were in Bayamón: Abra Estrecha, Barriada Vista Alegre, Juan Sánchez, Nuevo, Bda. Cedeño in Pájaros, Collores in Santa Olaya, Corea, Dajaos, El Chícharo, Sector Gandul, El Volcán, La Cambija, La Caridad, La Morenita, Los Viejitos, Papito, Sergio Reyes, Parcelas Sabanas, and Punta Brava.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Rivera Quintero, Marcia|title=El vuelo de la esperanza:Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997–2004|date=2014| publisher=San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón| edition=Primera edición|page=273|isbn=978-0-9820806-1-0}}</ref>