|
Manatí is a A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessarily the same as townships. In most countries, this is the smallest administrative subdivision...
municipality of This article is about Puerto Rico, the territory of the United States. For the board game, see Puerto Rico (game) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic in...
Puerto Rico. See also: The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii...
United States | There are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the United States Government, but Puerto Rico has 78 municipalities at the second order. Quick reference List Adjuntas Aguada Aguadilla Aguas Buenas Aibonito Añasco Arecibo Arroyo Barceloneta Barranquitas Bayamón Cabo Rojo Caguas Camuy Canóvanas Carolina Cataño...
Municipalities of This article is about Puerto Rico, the territory of the United States. For the board game, see Puerto Rico (game) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic in...
Puerto Rico | | | Adjuntas is a small mountainside town in Puerto Rico. Adjuntas is to the midwest area of the island, near San Sebastian, and twenty minutes away by car from Ponce. It is about four hours by car from San Juan. The main industry is the growing of tropical crops such as...
Adjuntas | Aguada is a municipality of United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Aguada | Aguadilla is a small beach town in Northwest Puerto Rico. Aguadilla has long been the home of the US militarys Base Ramey, where military planes of all types land and take off every day. Adjacent to Base Ramey is Rafael Hernandez International Airport, served by American Trans Air and...
Aguadilla | Aguas Buenas is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Aguas Buenas | Aibonito is a small mountain town in Puerto Rico. Aibonito is located on a relative high elevation, thus cooler year round than many of island towns. Aibonito is known for its flowers, and every year, many visitors from other Puerto Rican areas and other countries are attracted to Aibonitos...
Aibonito | Añasco | Arecibo is a municipality in Puerto Rico named after the Taino Cacique Arasibo. Arecibo is also known as the Villa del Capitan Correa after the Puerto Rican hero Captain Antonio de los Reyes Correa, who as a member of the Spanish Army defended Arecibo from a British invasion. It is...
Arecibo | Arroyo is a municipality of United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Arroyo | Barceloneta is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Barceloneta | Barranquitas, Puerto Rico is a small mountain town located in the central part of Puerto Rico, about one hour by winding roads from San Juan, the capital. It is nestled amid hills and mountains, and nearby, between Barranquitas and Puerto Rican Governors, Luis Muñoz Rivera and his son, Luis...
Barranquitas | Bayamón | Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico is a small town which is Puerto Ricos southwestern-most point. It is near Mayagüez and Ponce. Adjacent to the Caribbean sea and the Strait of Mona, Cabo Rojo is well known for its beaches and its resort area. While Cabo Rojo lacks an...
Cabo Rojo | Caguas (founded in 1775) is a municipality located in the eastern central area of Puerto Rico. It is known as El Valle Del Turabo (Turabo Valley) or La Ciudad Criolla (The Creole City) and its name originates from the Taíno cacique Caguax. Caguas is located one hour by car...
Caguas | Camuy, Puerto Rico was founded in 1807. It is located in the northwestern Atlantic coast, less than 10 minutes east of Hatillo on PR 2 and toll Expressway 22. The patron saint for Camuy is San José, celebrated on November 4. Camuys claim to fame comes from its Parque...
Camuy | Canóvanas | Carolina is a city located in the northern part of Puerto Rico, a short distance from San Juan. Along with San Juan, Bayamón, Guaynabo, Toa Baja and Cataño, it is considered to be a part of the islands metropolitan area. Don Gaspar Martínez donated the land...
Carolina | Cataño | Cayey is a mountain town in central Puerto Rico. Cayey is known for its beautiful women and the warmth and friendliness of its people. It is notable for its colorful wooden houses and the scent of the surrounding mountains. Until the 1990s, Cayey had not been visited by many people...
Cayey | Ceiba is a small town in northeast Puerto Rico. It is named after the famous ceiba tree. Ceiba, situated near Fajardo, used to be home of a American military air-base. The base has been abandoned, however, and governor Sila María Calderón has spoken about turning it into...
Ceiba | Ciales is a municipality of United States This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. You can help by expanding it. Categories: Substubs | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Ciales | Cidra is a municipality of United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Cidra | Coamo is a municipality in south central Puerto Rico, about 30 minutes away by car from Ponce. Coamo is the third oldest municipality in Puerto Rico, founded in 1579. General information A small, touristic town, Coamo is known for its historic downtown area and for its thermal waters. One of...
Coamo | Comerío | Corozal is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. You can help by expanding it. Categories: Substubs | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Corozal | Isla Culebra (Snake Island) is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Idelfonso. It is located approximately seventeen miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, twelve miles west of St. Thomas and nine miles north of Vieques. The island is also known as...
Culebra | Dorado is a small touristic town in the northern coast of Puerto Rico, west of San Juan, Cataño, and Bayamon. Dorado has long been known as a golf haven. Its touristic industry includes the Dorado Beach Resort and the El Cerromar Hotel, as well as Dorado Airport, a small...
Dorado | Fajardo is a small but popular city located on the north east coast of Puerto Rico. Fajardo is popular among tourists, specially local tourists, because of its seafood, hotels, closeness to the small island named Isleta Marina, and the many daily trips that are available to Vieques and Culebra, both...
Fajardo | Florida is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Florida | Guánica | Guayama is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Called La Ciudad Bruja or Pueblo de los Brujos. Guayama was founded in 1736 by Matías de Abadía. The Casa Cautiño is a beautiful home designed in creole-style architecture, built in 1887, now is a...
Guayama | Guayanilla is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Guayanilla | Guaynabo is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico. Guaynabo is considered, along with neighbors San Juan, Bayamon and Carolina and Toa Baja, to be one of the cities of the Area Metropolitana or Metropolitan Area in Puerto Rico. Long considered to be just a drive-by town...
Guaynabo | Gurabo is a small town in Puerto Rico. It is bordered by Caguas, San Lorenzo, Trujillo Alto and, to the north-east, Carolina. Gurabos history dates as far back as the 1600s, when Gurabo was actually part of Caguas. Then, the area was known as Burabo. By 1700, transportation...
Gurabo | Hatillo is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Hatillo | Hormigueros is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Hormigueros | Humacao is a quiet little town in Eastern Puerto Rico named after the Taino Cacique Jumacao. Humacao doesnt have the big hospital facilities, professional sports teams or large crowds of many of Puerto Ricos larger cities. However, it does have the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao with...
Humacao | The city of Isabela is located on the northwestern most tip of Puerto Rico. It is known as the Jardín del Noroeste, the Garden of the Northwest, because of the many wild flowers in its landscape; el Pueblo de los Quesitos de Hoja, the town of Leaf Cheeses, (a...
Isabela | Jayuya is a municipality of Puerto Rico named after the Taino Cacique Hayuya. See also Puerto Rico The Jayuya Uprising Categories: US geography stubs | Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Jayuya, Puerto Rico ...
Jayuya | Juana Díaz | Juncos is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Juncos | Lajas is a small town located in Puerto Ricos southwest. The town was founded in 1883 by Teodoro Jacome Pagan. Lajas is famous for its main touristic attraction, Phosphorescent Bay, a place where luminescent dinoflagellates of different colors appear when the water moves. The origin of the colored lights...
Lajas | Lares is a small mountain town in Puerto Ricos central-western area. A city adorned with Spanish-era style churches and small downtown area stores, Lares is a breezy area that is about three hours from San Juan by car. Lares has one major claim to fame: The 1868...
Lares | Las Marías | Las Piedras is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Las Piedras | Loíza | Luquillo is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Luquillo | Manatí | Maricao is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Maricao | Maunabo is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also: United States Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Maunabo | Mayagüez | Moca is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Stub ...
Moca | Morovis is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Stub ...
Morovis | Nagüabo | Naranjito is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Stub ...
Naranjito | Orocovis is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Stub ...
Orocovis | Patillas is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Municipalities of Puerto Rico | Stub ...
Patillas | Peñuelas | Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico outside of the San Juan metropolitan area is named after the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. It is located a few miles from the Caribbean coastline of the island. Ponce, nicknamed The City of Los Leones after Ponce de Le...
Ponce | Quebradillas, called La Guarida del Pirata or La Ciudad del Cooperativismo, Quebradillas was founded in 1823 by Felipe Ruiz. It derives its name to the large amount of streams in the town. Quebradillas is home of one of the 20 designated forest reserves in Puerto Rico. The Guajataca State Forest...
Quebradillas | Rincón | Río Grande | Sabana Grande is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Sabana Grande | Salinas is a small Puerto Rican town near Ponce. Salinas has long been a fishing spot for Puerto Ricans, known for its beaches and fish variety. Although Salinas doesnt have any commercial airports, there is a Military air base there. In addition, there is a military youth camp there...
Salinas | San Germán | San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. The city is located in the northeastern part of the island of Puerto Rico. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521 and is regarded as the oldest city in the United States of America (the oldest city in the continental...
San Juan | San Lorenzo (Spanish Saint Lawrence) is a town in eastern Puerto Rico. Also called El Pueblo de los Samatitanos or La Tierra de Leyendas, San Lorenzo was founded in 1811 by Valeriano Muñoz de Oneca. Its original name was San Miguel de Hato Grande. The surrounding areas produce tobacco...
San Lorenzo | San Sebastián | Santa Isabel is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Santa Isabel | Toa Alta is a municipality of Puerto Rico. It is located west of the capital city of San Juan. The town is commonly known by its nickname La Cuna de los Poetas, or Cradle of Poets, due to the numerous Spanish-language poets that were born there. The town...
Toa Alta | Toa Baja is a municipality of Puerto Rico. The city is located in the northern part of the island of Puerto Rico above Bayamón. Situated in what is considered to be the Metropolitan Area. Called La Ciudad Bajo Aguas, Toa Baja was founded in 1745. It shares its metropolitan...
Toa Baja | Trujillo Alto is a municipality of Puerto Rico that was was founded in 1801. Trujillo Alto holds its festivities in September and in 2001 it conmemorated its 200 year history. Each year Trujillo Alto celebrates El maraton del Arecostao which is a very popular marathon in the city. Trujillo Alto...
Trujillo Alto | Utuado is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Utuado | Vega Alta is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Vega Alta is west of the City of San Juan. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Vega Alta | Vega Baja is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Vega Baja | Vieques is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico. It is located to the east of the Puerto Rican mainland. Map of Puerto Rico and Vieques with inset of Caribbean. History Studies show that Vieques was first inhabited by Native Americans who came from South America about 1500 years before Christopher...
Vieques | Villalba is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Villalba | Yabucoa, Puerto Rico is a small town in that countrys south-eastern end. It is near Ceiba, and next to Maunabo and Humacao. Up until the 1970s, Yabucoa was basically a mountain town with little shows of progress and many farms. Some rich farm owners and affluent people lived...
Yabucoa | Yauco is a municipality of Puerto Rico. Categories: Stub | Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...
Yauco | |