Río Grande was flooded when
Hurricane Maria struck on September 20, 2017. The
Río Grande River destroyed many homes and came up as high as 2 feet under La Playita restaurant, which is a restaurant on
stilts. The people in the community were left isolated and without power.[8]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to
minor civil divisions)[14] in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others.[15][16][17]
The following sectors are in Río Grande barrio:[18]
Sector Delgado,
Sector El Cerro,
Sector Fontán,
Sector La Playita,
Sector Los Quendo, and
Tramo
Carretera 155.
^Rivera Quintero, Marcia (2014), El vuelo de la esperanza: Proyecto de las Comunidades Especiales Puerto Rico, 1997-2004 (first ed.), San Juan, Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón,
ISBN978-0-9820806-1-0
^"Leyes del 2001". Lex Juris Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2020.
^"PRECINTO ELECTORAL MOROVIS 020"(PDF). Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (in Spanish). PR Government. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2020.