Corcovado Puerto Rico Map
Explore Corcovado, 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 Corcovado, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Corcovado, Puerto Rico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Corcovado, 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 Corcovado.
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 | Corcovado |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Hatillo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.458557 |
| Longitude | -66.776287 |
| Population | 995 |
| Density | 837.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00659 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
About Corcovado, Puerto Rico
Corcovado is a locality in Hatillo County, Puerto Rico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 995. The population density is 837.1 people per km². Corcovado is located at 18.4586°N, 66.7763°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00659.Corcovado holds the sun in the quiet hollows of its limestone terrain, where the humid breath of the tropics meets the steady, mineral scent of the earth. It lies 4.1 miles west-southwest of Arecibo, PR (from Arecibo, PR: bearing 256°T), and is situated 3.8 miles east-southeast of Hatillo. Beyond the immediate reach of the nearby Quebrada Seca, the land rises in stubborn, verdant swells that suggest the ancient pressure of the Montañas Guarionex looming on the distant horizon. The light here at dusk settles with a heavy, bruised violet hue, catching the high, jagged silhouette of Roca Resuello miles away while the air remains thick with the salt-crusted moisture blowing in from the direction of Puerto Arecibo. Two miles away, the singular geometry of the running track serves as a stark, human-made punctuation mark against the tangled, chaotic green of the undergrowth, where the wild vines reclaim the edges of the soil with a slow, relentless patience.
Corcovado maintains a pulse that is measured less by the frantic tick of a clock and more by the seasonal swell of the Río Camuy, which draws the moisture of the lowlands toward the sea. The economy here is an intricate ledger of small-scale agriculture and the quiet persistence of those who navigate the transition between the island’s interior and the coast. Life in Corcovado moves with the practiced fluidity of a people who carry the memory of both the dense, shadowed interior of the Bosque Estatal de Río Abajo and the open, restless horizon of the water. Even as the modern world encroaches, the rhythm of the day is defined by the heavy heat of the afternoon and the sharp, sudden clarity of the stars that appear once the clouds have retreated toward the peaks of the distant mountains, leaving the landscape to settle into a cool, watchful silence.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- running track (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 338° N
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 071° E
- Forest Legacy Program acquisition - Finca North Inv. & Prop., Inc (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 140° SE
- Caño Tiburones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 5.6 mi, 082° E
- Reserva Natural Caño Tiburones (State Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 080° E
- Bosque Estatal de Río Abajo (State Resource Management Area) — 7.6 mi, 156° SE
- Cavernas del Río Camuy (State Park) — 8.1 mi, 202° S
- Bosque Estatal de Cambalache (State Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 099° E
- Cueva del Indio Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 9.0 mi, 076° E
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 16.2 mi, 106° E · 29k acres
- Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.8 mi, 214° SW · 540 acres
- Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.3 mi, 218° SW · 5,583 acres
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About This Corcovado Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Corcovado, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.458557, -66.776287. 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 Corcovado includes the ZIP code (00659), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Hatillo 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. |
