---
type: Person
title: "Carmelo Ríos Santiago"
description: "PR Senate District 2 — PR State Senate District 2"
role: "PR Senate District 2"
party: "PAR"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "PR"
district: "PR State Senate District 2"
represents: "us/states/pr/districts/senate/2"
tenure:
  start: "2005-01-02"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "ff28bf1c-973a-41ef-bcbc-6b51982c3811"
  office: "91a327c9-1c03-42f0-838a-060c79fec38c"
  tenure: "f527e906-20a6-4b07-a446-b568479c0f20"
  jurisdiction: "9071f36e-4a1c-446b-8c7f-ccfe3e29b1b1"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, pr]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Carmelo Ríos Santiago

Current PR Senate District 2 (PR State Senate District 2).

Represents [PR State Senate District 2](/us/states/pr/districts/senate/2.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).