| Official Name: | Islote |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.4817°N -66.6472°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Arecibo |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 9.63 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 7.28 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 2.35 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 5665 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 778.2 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 23 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Islote is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,665.[2] [3] [4] "Birth of a New World", a giant sculpture of Christopher Columbus on a ship, is located in Islote.
Islote was in Spain's gazetteers[5] 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 Islote barrio was 2,498.[6]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[7] 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.[8] [9]
The following sectors are in Islote barrio:[10] [11]
Spanish; Castilian: Callejón del Cristo (Callejón del Diablo), Callejón Francés Apartamentos Oceanía, Comunidad Islote I y II, Comunidad Jarealito, Comunidad Vigía, Condominios Atlántica, Sector Boán, Sector Caracoles, Sector Cueva del Indio, Sector El Callejón, Sector La Vía, Sector Melilla, Sector Pasaje, Sector Piquiña, Sector Rincón Chiquito, Sector Rincón Grande, Sector Vívora, Urbanización Brisas de Palma Roja, Urbanización Brisas del Mar I y II, Urbanización Corales del Mar, Urbanización Costa de Oro, Urbanización Costa del Atlántico, Urbanización Costas del Mar, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Reparto Maritza.
Birth of the New World, a 360 foot (110 m) bronze sculpture of Christopher Columbus and a ship is located on the Atlantic coastline, in Islote.[12]