Quebrada Negrito

Quebrada Negrito is a Barrios of [Puerto Rico|barrio] in the municipality of Trujillo [Alto, Puerto Rico]. Its population in 2010 was 5,610. The barrio was created in 1899.

History

Quebrada Negrito 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 combined population of La [Gloria, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico|La Gloria] barrio and Quebrada Negrito barrio was 1,487.