Vayas | |
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.jpg) Tower at Mercedita Airport in Vayas | |
 Location of Vayas barrio within the municipality of Ponce shown in red | |
  Vayas Location of Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 17°58′59″N 66°34′15″W / 17.983021°N 66.570813°W[1] | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  Ponce |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10.44 sq mi (27.0 km2) |
| • Land | 7.09 sq mi (18.4 km2) |
| • Water | 3.35 sq mi (8.7 km2) |
| Elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 901 |
| • Density | 127.1/sq mi (49.1/km2) |
| Source: 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Vayas is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Playa, Bucana, Canas and Capitanejo, Vayas is also one of Ponce's five coastal barrios. Together with Capitanejo, Vayas is also one of two rural coastal barrios in the municipality.[3] It was organized in 1831, at which time it was divided into Vayas Norte and Vayas Sur; in 1878 the two were subsequently merged into today's Vayas.[4]
- ^ a b "US Gazetteer 2019". US Census. US Government.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Vayas barrio
- ^ Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo. Hacia un Estudio Integral de la Toponimia del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ph. D. dissertation. May 1999. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Graduate School. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Page 22.
- ^ Barrios de Ponce. Archived 30 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Antepasados Esclavos.(From: Pedro Tomás de Córdoba. Memorias geográficas, históricas, económicas y estadísticas de la Isla de Puerto Rico.) Retrieved 28 November 2014.