Explore Hacienda San José, 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 Hacienda San José, 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 Hacienda San José.
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 | Hacienda San José |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Arecibo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.435913 |
| Longitude | -66.686561 |
| Population | 3,814 |
| Density | 2454.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 59184 |
Hacienda San José occupies a landscape where the earth yields to the steady, unceasing passage of the Río Grande de Arecibo as it carves its way toward the northern coast. It lies 3.2 miles southeast of Arecibo, PR (from Arecibo, PR: bearing 143°T), and is situated 8.7 miles west of Imbéry. The air here holds a heavy, salt-sweet moisture, an atmospheric reminder that the open waters of Puerto Arecibo wait only three miles distant. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain rises toward the modest elevation of Rincón Grande, while the low-lying wetlands of the Caño Tiburones Natural Reserve act as a silent, sprawling buffer between the solid ground and the sea. The light at daybreak often catches the limestone soil in a pale, dusty gray, illuminating the narrow cuts of Quebrada La Regadera that vein the surrounding acreage with seasonal precision.
Hacienda San José preserves a quiet connection to the agrarian rhythms that once defined the island’s interior, though the modern economy has shifted toward more varied, localized industry. The echoes of colonial land management remain in the layout of the fields, yet the current character of the place is defined by a sense of residency that looks both toward the quiet industry of the inland basin and the distant, constant pull of the coast. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a region that has learned to accommodate the seasonal surges of the river and the vast, protected quietude of the nearby reserve. Though the grandeur of places like Lago Dos Bocas sits miles away in the interior, the local focus remains on the immediate soil, where the heritage of the land is maintained by those who have long recognized the subtle, persistent value of this particular stretch of terrain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hacienda San José, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.435913, -66.686561. 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 Hacienda San José includes the ZIP code (59184), telephone area code, 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. |