Explore Culebra, 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 Culebra, 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 Culebra.
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 | Culebra |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Culebra County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.303012 |
| Longitude | -65.300991 |
| Population | 1,262 |
| Density | 528.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00775 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
Culebra rises from the Caribbean as a rugged, sun-bleached fragment of earth where the horizon dissolves into the pale turquoise shallows of Bahía de Sardinas. It lies 23.1 miles east of Fajardo, PR (from Fajardo, PR: bearing 94°T), and is situated 14.3 miles northeast of Vieques. The landscape is defined by its low-slung, arid hills, where the salt-heavy air stunts the growth of coastal scrub and leaves the limestone bedrock exposed to the relentless glare of the midday sun. Inland, the horizon is dominated by the stillness of Laguna de Lobine, a mirror reflecting the cloudless sky, while the jagged silhouette of the distant Cabritaberg remains a faint, hazy promise far to the west. Cayo Pirata guards the approach to the shore, a quiet sentinel of rock and sand that separates the rhythmic pulse of the tide from the quiet, brackish interior. Visitors often find that the light here possesses a peculiar, blinding clarity, bleaching the color from the day until the world feels as sharp and spare as a line drawing.
Culebra carries the weight of a complex past, having transitioned from a site of naval maneuvers to a sanctuary where the slow, deliberate pace of island life dictates the economy. The local livelihood relies on the sea, with small craft navigating the harbor and local markets trafficking in the harvest of the reefs and the modest needs of a transient population. While the distant Quebrada Marunguey channels the flow of life through the mainland, the daily existence here is bounded by the perimeter of the Unknown Local Park, a protected expanse that preserves the raw, unmanicured character of the coast. The legacy of the military presence has faded into the undergrowth, leaving behind a silence that is only broken by the occasional hum of a boat engine or the sudden, erratic flight of seabirds. Life in Culebra moves with the tides, defined not by the rush of industry, but by the quiet persistence of people who have learned to thrive in a place where the ocean is both the boundary and the sustenance.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Culebra, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.303012, -65.300991. 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 Culebra includes the ZIP code (00775), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Culebra 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. |