[3][4][5] Puerto Rico Highway 155 from Perchas in Morovis takes one to the adjoining municipality of Orocovis.

In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Perchas barrio was 1,124.

Six months later, a controlled implosion was used to disintegrate the huge rock in order for the area to be cleared of the threat.

[13][14] Residents of bordering barrios then had to traverse through Perchas to reach Pueblo because over 90% of the roads were blocked by debris due to landslides and destruction to infrastructure.

[15] Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions)[16] in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores (sectors in English).