El Cinco is a barrio

Barrio

Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood.-Usage:In its formal usage in English, barrios are generally considered cohesive places, sharing, for example, a church and traditions such as feast days...

 of the municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 and a former barrio of the dissolved municipality of Rio Piedras

Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Río Piedras is a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Founded in 1714, it has been the home of the University of Puerto Rico's main campus since 1903, earning the town the popular name of Ciudad Universitaria...

. In the year 2000 it had a population of 7,149 and a land area of 1.37 square miles (3.55 km²) resulting in a population density of 5,207.9/sq mi (2,010.78/km2). El Cinco is surrounded by seven barrios: Gobernador Piñero

Gobernador Piñero, San Juan, Puerto Rico

With a 2000 population of 47,779 living in a land area of , it is San Juan’s second most populated "barrio" after Santurce, and the fourth largest in land area. It has a population density of 10,770.4 residents per square mile...

, Monacillo Urbano

Monacillo Urbano, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Monacillo Urbano is a barrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico that was originally part of Monacillo Barrio. In 2000 it had a population of 29,309 living in a land area of 3.35 square miles . Monacillo Urbano is surrounded by Gobernador Piñero Barrio to the north, El Cinco Barrio to the east, Monacillo...

, Monacillo

Monacillo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Monacillo is a barrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It originally included the area that now forms the Barrio of Monacillo Urbano. In 2000 it had a population of 12,425 living in a land area of 1.15 square miles...

, Cupey

Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cupey is the largest barrio in the municipality of San Juan, and the third most populous with 36,659 inhabitants according to Census 2000. The territorial land area of Cupey is 7.49 square miles...

, Sabana Llana Sur, Pueblo

Pueblo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

It is a one of twenty one barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pueblo includes what used to be the urban center barrio of the former municipality of Rio Piedras...

, and Hato Rey Sur.