Quebrada Grande, Barranquitas, Puerto Rico


Quebrada Grande is a barrio in the municipality of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,217.

History

The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Quebrada Grande barrio was 931.

Special community

Since 2001 when law 1-2001 was passed, measures have been taken to identify and address the high levels of poverty and the lack of resources and opportunities affecting specific communities in Puerto Rico. Initially there were 686 places that made the list. By 2008, there were 742 places on the list of Comunidades especiales de Puerto Rico. The places on the list are barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods and in 2004, Quebrada Grande made the list. In 2017, Jesús Vélez Vargas, the director of the Special Communities of Puerto Rico program stated that the program was evolving with more ways to help the residents of these so-called marginalized communities.