| Official Name: | Salto Abajo |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.2866°N -66.7103°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Utuado |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.66 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.63 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.03 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 3929 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 1493.9 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 568 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Salto Abajo is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,929.[1] [2] [3]
Salto Abajo is situated at an elevation of, just north of Salto Arriba and Pueblo in Utuado, Puerto Rico. It has an area of of which is water.[4]
Salto Abajo 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 population of Salto Abajo barrio was 836.[6]
After the rope bridge in Salto Abajo was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, engineering students from the University of New Mexico and University of Texas at El Paso began its reconstruction, but never completed the work.[7]