Peña Pobre


Peña Pobre is a barrio in the municipality of Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,131.

History

Peña Pobre 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 Peña Pobre barrio was 1,064.

Sectors

Barrios in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores. The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.
The following sectors are in Peña Pobre barrio:
Callejón Mendoza,
Parcelas Nuevas,
Parcelas Playa,
Parcelas Viejas,
Sector Centro,
Sector Ciénaga,
Sector El Molino Rojo,
Sector El Pilón,
Sector Fanduca,
Sector Higüerillo,
Sector La Loma,
Sector La Suiza,
Sector Los Benítez,
Sector Mambiche Blanco,
Sector Medianía Alta,
Sector Medianía,
Sector Peña Pobre Abajo,
Sector Peña Pobre Arriba,
Sector Villa Terapia, and Urbanización Villa de Monte Cristo.

Hurricane Maria

Peña Pobre was hit especially hard by Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017. Members of Jesucristo Monte Moriah, a local church, worked with World Central Kitchen and José Andrés to prepare meals. The infrastructure had been destroyed and Puerto Ricans were finding it very difficult to find ingredients for cooking, money for buying food, or gasoline to move around. This community is located up in the mountains accessed through steep, curvy roads which had lost their borders. The community worked to cook and deliver meals to families that could not feed themselves and their families.