| Official Name: | Mal Paso |
| Native Name: | Malpaso |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.366°N -67.1694°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Aguada |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.93 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.93 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 2483 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 2669.9 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 135 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
| Postal Code: | 00602 |
| Area Code: | 787, 939 |
Mal Paso is a barrio in the municipality of Aguada, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,483.[2] [3] [4]
Mal Paso was in Spain's gazetteers[5] 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 Mal Paso and Guanábano barrios (spelled Guanábanas) was 723.[6]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[7] 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.[8] [9] [10]
The following sectors are in Mal Paso barrio:[11]
Spanish; Castilian: Apartamentos Piedras Blancas, Parcelas Cornelias, Parcelas Las Minas, Sector Avilés, Sector Bucaré, Sector Cáceres, Sector César Ruíz, Sector Chevo Sánchez, Sector El Criollito, Sector Los Bimbas, Sector Militar, Sector Rosa, Sector Sabana, Sector Sony Hill, Sector Tatín Varela, Sector Vadi, Sector Villarrubia, andSpanish; Castilian: Urbanización Colinas Vista Azul.
In Mal Paso barrio is part of the Luyando community.