Quebrada Arenas (

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for ''sandy creek'') is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of

San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jur ...

. Located in the southwest corner of San Juan, it is the only rural

barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residenti ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

. Quebrada Arenas is totally outside San Juan's municipal urban zone according to the last

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. In 2010 it had a population of 2,747 and a land area of , resulting in a population density of 1,116.7 residents per square mile (431.2 km²), the lowest of any barrio in San Juan. Quebrada Arenas has boundaries with the municipalities of Aguas Buenas and

Caguas Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founde ...

to the south, and

Guaynabo Guaynabo (, ) is a city, suburb of San Juan and municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas, south of Cataño, east of Bayamón, and west of San Juan. Guaynabo is spr ...

to the west, and is bounded by Caimito barrios to the east and Tortugo barrio to the north.

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