Gobernador Piñero, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Gobernador Piñero | |
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San Patricio Forest in Gobernador Piñero | |
Location of Gobernador Piñero shown in yellow. | |
| Coordinates: 18°24′34″N 66°05′29″W / 18.409372°N 66.091421°W | |
| Commonwealth | Puerto Rico |
| Municipality | San Juan |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.83 sq mi (12.5 km2) |
| • Land | 4.56 sq mi (11.8 km2) |
| • Water | 0.27 sq mi (0.7 km2) |
| Elevation | 95 ft (29 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 44,006 |
| • Density | 9,650.4/sq mi (3,726.0/km2) |
| 2010 census | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (AST) |
Gobernador Piñero is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. With a population of 44,006 (2010) living in a land area of 4.44 square miles (11.5 km2), it is San Juan’s second most populated barrio after Santurce, and the fourth largest in land area.
This district is named after Jesús T. Piñero who was the first and only native Puerto Rican governor of the territory under the American colonial administration in 1946.