Aguas Buenas Puerto Rico Map
Explore Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Puerto Rico or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Aguas Buenas.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Aguas Buenas |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Aguas Buenas County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.256899 |
| Longitude | -66.102944 |
| Population | 3,488 |
| Density | 1394.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00703 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
About Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
Aguas Buenas is a locality in Aguas Buenas County, Puerto Rico, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,488. The population density is 1394.2 people per km². Aguas Buenas is located at 18.2569°N, 66.1029°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00703.Aguas Buenas defines itself through the persistent, winding presence of the Río Bairoa, which carves a path through the verdant, moisture-rich terrain of the interior. It lies 3.9 miles west-northwest of Caguas, PR (from Caguas, PR: bearing 294°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south of Guaynabo. The landscape rises into the rugged silhouettes of the Altos de la Mesa, a mountain range that keeps watch over the deep, fertile folds of the Quebrada de los Muertos. Here, the air holds a heavy, velvet quality, often saturated with the scent of damp earth and blooming tropical flora that thrives in the humid intervals between sun and rain. The elevation lends a cooler temperament to the afternoons, where the light softens into a pale, bruised violet as it retreats behind the high ridges, casting long, deliberate shadows across the valley floor.
Aguas Buenas functions as a quiet center of gravity for the surrounding agricultural life, where the history of the soil is written in the surviving legacy of small-scale cultivation and local commerce. At the hub of daily movement, the Plaza Pública de Aguas Buenas Luis A. Ferré serves as the essential meeting point, an open space where the cadence of civic life remains steady and unadorned. Though the influence of the wider world arrives by way of the winding roads, the rhythm of Aguas Buenas stays tethered to the seasonal cycles of its inland geography. Residents navigate the steep inclines and the proximity to the distant Represa de Comerío with a familiarity that ignores the frantic pace of the lowlands, favoring instead the grounded, enduring persistence of life in the mountains.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 278° W
- Reserva Natural Sistema de Cuevas y Cavernas de Aguas Buenas (State Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 186° S
- Parque Forestal La Marquesa (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 341° N
- Bosque Estatal de Carite (State Resource Management Area) — 8.5 mi, 176° S
- Bosque Urbano del Nuevo Milenio/ CESJ (State Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 028° NE
- Caño Martín Peña Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 12.1 mi, 008° N
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 13.4 mi, 088° E · 29k acres
- Bosque Estatal de Piñones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 15.0 mi, 031° NE
- El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.4 mi, 087° E · 10k acres
- Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 20.4 mi, 083° E · 708 acres
- Rio Mameyes, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 21.9 mi, 085° E · 1,219 acres
- Vieques National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.7 mi, 105° E · 52k acres
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About This Aguas Buenas Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.256899, -66.102944. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Aguas Buenas includes the ZIP code (00703), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Aguas Buenas County, and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
