| Official Name: | Torrecilla Baja |
| Settlement Type: | Barrio |
| Pushpin Map: | Caribbean |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates: | 18.4455°N -65.9426°W |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Commonwealth |
| Subdivision Name: |  Puerto Rico |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Loíza |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 11.55 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 7.31 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 4.24 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Note: | Source: 2010 Census |
| Population Total: | 2404 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 328.9 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 0 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
| Postal Code: | 00772 |
Torrecilla Baja is a barrio in the municipality of Loíza, Puerto Rico. Torrecilla Baja has eight sectors and its population was 2,404 in 2010.[2] [3] [4] The Piñones State Forest is located in Torrecilla Baja.
Torrecilla 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 Torrecilla Baja and Torrecilla Alta barrios was 1,473.[6]
The Piñones State Forest is in Torrecilla Baja.[7]
Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[8] 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.[9] [10]
The following sectors are in Torrecilla Baja barrio:[11]
Spanish; Castilian: Sector El Terraplén, Sector La Arena, Sector La Torre, Sector Las Pajita, Sector Los Vizcarrondo, Sector Monte Grande, Sector Piñones, and Spanish; Castilian: Sector Punta Maldonado.