| Official Name: | Medianía Baja |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.4216°N -65.8565°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Loíza |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.95 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.51 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.44 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 8781 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 3526.5 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 10 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Medianía Baja is a barrio in the municipality of Loíza, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 8,781.[2] [3] [4]
Medianía Baja 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 Medianía Baja and Medianía Alta barrios was 2,296.[6]
Spanish; Castilian: El Buren de Lula, a well-known restaurant is located in Medianía Baja. An annual festival including cuisine from "Lula" is held in this barrio every March.[7] [8] [9]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[10] 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.[11] [12]
The following sectors are in Medianía Baja barrio:[13]
Spanish; Castilian: Apartamentos Loíza Gardens, Callejón Los Millonarios, [[Puerto Rico Highway 187|Carretera 187]], Comunidad Pompeya, Comunidad Zapatería Pizarro, Condominio Ocean Point, Égida La Providencia, El Martillo, El Mamey, Honduras, La Gallera, Malibu Apartments, Parcelas Suárez, Sector El Trompo, Sector Jobos, Sector La 23, Sector Los Boria, Sector Los Parrilla, Sector Richard, Sector Villa del Carmen, Sector Villa Kennedy, Urbanización El Cabo, Urbanización Estancias del Río, Urbanización Palmarena, Urbanización Santiago Apóstol, Urbanización Santillana del Mar, and Spanish; Castilian: Urbanización Vista del Océano.