Buena Vista Puerto Rico Map
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.
Interactive Map of Buena Vista, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Buena Vista, Puerto Rico Map
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 | Lares 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 |
About Buena Vista, Puerto Rico
Buena Vista is a locality in Lares County, Puerto Rico, United States. Buena Vista is located at 18.0061°N, 66.5977°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00616.Buena Vista sits upon the verdant, undulating interior of the island, where the humid breath of the tropics clings to the thick, emerald canopy of the surrounding terrain. It lies 16.7 miles southwest of Arecibo, PR (from Arecibo, PR: bearing 222°T), and is situated 0.6 miles west-southwest of Lares. Sunlight filters through the dense foliage to illuminate the deep, limestone-rich soil of Quebrada Anón, a quiet basin that defines the local topography just a mile from the flow of the Río Juncal. In the distance, the silhouette of the Montañas Guarionex rises against the sky, a jagged, hazy boundary that anchors the horizon. The air here holds a distinct, heavy stillness, broken only by the persistent hum of insects and the occasional rustle of leaves in the humid afternoons, where the light turns a bruised, golden hue before the sudden onset of dusk.
Buena Vista retains a character forged by generations of agricultural labor, historically rooted in the cultivation of coffee and plantains that thrive in the rich, volcanic-influenced earth. Residents gather at the Unknown Local Park, which serves as the quiet social nucleus for a population that balances a deep, ancestral connection to these inland slopes with the practicalities of modern life. While the distant waters of Lago de Guajataco shimmer four miles to the north, the focus of daily existence remains firmly on the land itself, where the Guajataca State Forest eight miles away acts as a vast, dark sentinel over the region’s ecological health. Life in Buena Vista moves with a deliberate, measured pace, defined by the seasonal cycles of the harvest and the enduring, quiet pride of a mountain culture that exists far removed from the bustle of the coast.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Parque Familiar Julio Enrique Monagas (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 167° S
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 286° W
- Reserva Natural Punta Cucharas (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 249° W
- Bosque Estatal de Guánica (State Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 166° S
- Caja de Muertos Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 7.4 mi, 150° SE
- Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro (State Resource Management Area) — 9.6 mi, 008° N
- Bosque Estatal de Monte Guilarte (State Resource Management Area) — 11.0 mi, 311° NW
- Punta Petrona Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 13.2 mi, 106° E
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 27.0 mi, 008° N · 29k acres
- Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.1 mi, 270° W · 540 acres
- Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.9 mi, 267° W · 5,583 acres
- El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 52.2 mi, 069° E · 10k acres
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About This Buena Vista Map Page
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 Lares 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. |
