Doña Elena, Comerío, Puerto Rico

Doña Elena is a barrio in the municipality of Comerío, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,252.

Sectors
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 Doña Elena:

Doña Elena Abajo, Parts of PR-Highway 780, Ramal 7780 and Ramal 8809, Sector Ayala, Sector Bermúdez, Sector El Salto, Sector Figueroa, Sector Iglesia, Sector La Cocora, Sector La Línea, Sector La Loma, Sector La Tosca (Carretera 815), Sector Los Martínez, Sector Los Perniles, Sector Los Pinos, Sector Media Luna, Sector Parcelas, Sector Puente Las Palomas, and Sector Villas de Doña Elena.

History
Doña Elena was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American 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 Doña Elena barrio was 1,460.