Animas Puerto Rico Map
Explore Animas, 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 Animas, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Animas, Puerto Rico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Animas, 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 Animas.
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 | Animas |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Arecibo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.445502 |
| Longitude | -66.634896 |
| Population | 1,314 |
| Density | 1722.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00612 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
About Animas, Puerto Rico
Animas is a locality in Arecibo County, Puerto Rico, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,314. The population density is 1722.1 people per km². Animas is located at 18.4455°N, 66.6349°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00612.Animas occupies a quiet expanse of land where the humid breath of the tropics meets the subtle, persistent erosion of the earth. It lies 5.6 miles east-southeast of Arecibo, PR (from Arecibo, PR: bearing 109°T), and is situated 9.7 miles west of Tierras Nuevas Poniente. The terrain here is defined by the dense, verdant canopy of Bosque Estatal de Cambalache, which blankets the immediate surroundings and creates a cool, shadowed sanctuary against the relentless midday glare. To the north, the salt-tinged air drifts in from the nearby coast, hinting at the vast expanse of Puerto Arecibo, while the landscape itself dips into the fertile depressions of Quebrada La Regadera. Beyond the immediate thickets, the distant silhouette of Cuchilla Buena Vista anchors the horizon, providing a permanent, jagged frame to a sky that shifts from bruised violet to pale gold as the sun retreats.
Animas retains a singular character that speaks to a long, agrarian heritage, sustained by the proximity of the Río Grande de Arecibo, which has long nourished the soil and dictated the patterns of local life. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, with the forest serving as both a natural boundary and an enduring presence that influences the pace of daily existence. While the nearby islands like Los Negritos remain distant, inscrutable points on the edge of the water, the people here find their own center in the quiet corridors of the forest and the open fields. Whether one is watching the light filter through the leaves of the Cambalache State Forest or contemplating the slow, steady movement of the river toward the sea, Animas exists as a place where the past feels not like a relic, but like the very foundation of the present.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Bosque Estatal de Cambalache (State Resource Management Area) — 0.5 mi, 155° SE
- Parque Paseos Reales (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 282° W
- Reserva Natural Caño Tiburones (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 343° N
- Caño Tiburones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 1.1 mi, 343° N
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 212° SW
- Cueva del Indio Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 3.1 mi, 350° N
- Forest Legacy Program acquisition - Finca San Andrés Dairy (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 158° S
- Bosque Estatal de Río Abajo (State Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 215° SW
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 7.1 mi, 116° SE · 29k acres
- Cavernas del Río Camuy (State Park) — 13.8 mi, 241° SW
- Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.0 mi, 228° SW · 5,583 acres
- El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 52.6 mi, 102° E · 10k acres
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About This Animas Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Animas, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.445502, -66.634896. 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 Animas includes the ZIP code (00612), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Arecibo 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. |
