Río Hondo, Comerío, Puerto Rico

Río Hondo is a barrio in the municipality of Comerío, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2300.

Río Hondo, a river, is located in this barrio.

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 Río Hondo:

Carretera R774, Carretera R-776, Comerío Elderly, Sector Bordones, Sector El Llano, Sector El Tigre, Sector La Guitarra, Sector La Juncia, Sector La Loma, Sector La Paila, Sector La Puntilla, Sector Los Ocasio, Sector Los Ruiz, Sector Parcelas, Sector Quebrada Grande and Urbanización Sabana del Palmar.

History
Río Hondo 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 Río Hondo barrio was 1,161.