Explore Buena Vista, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista.
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 | Buena Vista |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Cayey County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.006077 |
| Longitude | -66.597673 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00616 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
Buena Vista holds the quiet gravity of the interior highlands, where the land rises in deliberate, verdant folds toward the rugged silhouette of Monte Llano. The air here carries the cooling weight of elevation, shifting from the sharp clarity of early morning to the heavy, humid stillness that settles over the valley floor of Quebrada Morillo by late afternoon. A mile away, the Río Matón traces a winding course through the terrain, its presence marked by the deepening of shadows against the banks and the constant, subtle rustle of vegetation along its path. Sunlight catches the ridges in a way that turns the deep greens of the foliage into a muted, velvet gray, lending the horizon a permanence that feels both ancient and deeply rooted in the soil.
Buena Vista maintains the steady, measured pace of a place defined by its long relationship with the earth and the cultivation of the central hills. The local economy persists in the rhythm of agricultural cycles, where the land remains the primary architect of daily life and communal labor. Residents often find their way toward the Unknown Local Park, a quiet space that serves as a focal point for the neighborhood, standing in contrast to the more distant, expansive reaches of the Bosque Estatal de Aguirre. Even as the modern world shifts, the character of Buena Vista remains tied to the traditions of the interior, favoring a life that values the immediate texture of the hills over the frantic pull of the periphery.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buena Vista, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.006077, -66.597673. 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 Buena Vista includes the ZIP code (00616), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Cayey 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. |