Mameyes Abajo

Mameyes Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,136. The corresponding Mameyes Arriba is located in neighbouring Jayuya at a higher elevation, but was once part of Utuado as well.
The Río La Venta is a river in Mameyes Abajo.

History

Mameyes Abajo was in Spain's gazetteers 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 Mameyes barrio was 4,268.