The municipality of Yabucoa is located in the south-eastern coast of Puerto Rico. The
Valley of Yabucoa is surrounded by the hills of the
San Lorenzo Batholith on three sides and by the
Caribbean Sea on the fourth. The hills surrounding the Yabucoa Valley as well as the bedrock underlying the alluvium in the valley are composed of the San Lorenzo Batholith, a large, igneous intrusive body emplaced during the
Late Cretaceous (Rogers, 1977; Rogers and others, 1979). The San Lorenzo Batholith is a composite body that is composed of
gabbro (Kd),
diorite,
tonalite,
granodiorite, and
quartz monzonite. The
Cuchillas de Panduras, a fork of the
Sierra de Cayey in the
Cordillera Central runs through its south. Santa Elena is one of its most prominent peaks with an altitude of . Santa Elena is located in Juan Martin ward. Pandura Peak rises above sea level. Pandura is located in the Calabazas ward. The altitude of the hills surrounding the Valley of Yabucoa reaches a maximum of about at the head of the
Río Guayanés basin. The land surface in the Yabucoa Valley slopes gently from an altitude of about above mean sea level, at the western edge of the valley, to sea level where the valley meets the Caribbean Sea.
Barrios Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Yabucoa is subdivided into
barrios. The municipal buildings, central square and large Catholic church are located in a barrio referred to as . •
Aguacate •
Calabazas •
Camino Nuevo •
Guayabota •
Jácanas •
Juan Martín •
Limones •
Playa •
Tejas •
Yabucoa barrio-pueblo Sectors Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to
minor civil divisions) are further subdivided into smaller areas called (
sectors in English). The types of
sectores may vary, from normally
sector to
urbanización to
reparto to
barriada to
residencial, among others.
Special Communities (Special Communities of Puerto Rico) are marginalized communities whose citizens are experiencing a certain amount of
social exclusion. A map shows these communities occur in nearly every municipality of the commonwealth. Of the 742 places that were on the list in 2014, the following barrios, communities, sectors, or neighborhoods were in Yabucoa: Ingenio, Jacanas Granja, Playa Guayanés, Tejas Trinidad, and Urbanización Jaime C. Rodríguez. ==Demographics==