Peña Pobre


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

Hurricane Maria

Peña Pobre was hit particularly bad by Hurricane Maria on September 19, 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.

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 Peña Pobre barrio was 1,064.