text: Canadian singer Nelly Furtado along with Calle 13 band member Residente filmed the music video to the remix of Furtado's song No Hay Igual  on 26 June 2006 in La Perla. Residente said he hoped that the video would help them both reach new audiences: "It's a good opportunity for us both. More than the North American market, the European market really interests me and her because her family is Portuguese." The video was directed by Israel Lugo and Gabriel Coss, photographed by Sonnel Velazquez and produced by María Estades.
  In Giannina Braschi's political allegory United States of Banana (2011), the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo is born in the dungeon of the Statue of Liberty as the illegitimate child of a woman from La Perla and the Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín.
  The Puerto Rican classic play, La Carreta, (1953) by René Marqués, takes place in La Perla. A poor family moves from their farm to La Perla, and then to the Bronx for the better life that they never quite find.
  The motion picture The Vessel (film), starring Martin Sheen, about a tidal wave that destroys a small town was filmed in La Perla in 2013.
  With more than 8.3 billion views on YouTube, La Perla became world-known with the music video for the song Despacito being filmed there.