Sabana, Orocovis, Puerto Rico

Sabana is a barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 976.

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 Sabana barrio:

Sector Chu Vázquez, Sector Cruce de Mayo, Sector El Árbol Taíno, Sector La Cuesta, Sector La Pista, Sector La Planta de Gas, Sector La Vega, Sector Los Cintrón, Sector Los Figueroa, Sector Los Mateo, Sector Los Meléndez, Sector Los Negrón, Sector Los Padilla, Sector Los Rosado, and Sector Sabana Arriba.

History
Sabana 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 combined population of Sabana and Mata de Cañas barrios was 1,089.