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Jaguas Puerto Rico Map

Explore Jaguas, 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 Jaguas, Puerto Rico

How to Use This Jaguas, Puerto Rico Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Jaguas, 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 Jaguas.

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.

CityJaguas
StatePuerto Rico (PR)
CountyCiales County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneAtlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico)
Latitude17.968855
Longitude-66.264612
Population2,257
Density421.1 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code00638
Area Code787, 939

About Jaguas, Puerto Rico

Jaguas is a locality in Ciales County, Puerto Rico, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,257. The population density is 421.1 people per km². Jaguas is located at 17.9689°N, 66.2646°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00638.

Jaguas occupies an expanse of verdant, inland terrain where the heavy, humid air clings to the skin like a damp cloth during the long, sweltering afternoons. It lies 10.6 miles west-southwest of Corozal, PR (from Corozal, PR: bearing 257°T), and is situated 6.8 miles southeast of Florida. The topography here is defined by a series of steep, folded ridges that push upward toward the distant Montañas de Corozal, which silhouette the horizon in shades of bruised purple and charcoal. A mile from the center, the Río Grande de Manatí carves a path through the earth, its water rushing over slick, moss-covered stones toward the low-lying basin of the Quebrada Saliente. The light at dusk here possesses a particular, syrupy quality, turning the dense foliage into dark, impenetrable walls of green that seem to absorb the fading sun before the night air cools into a sudden, deep stillness.

Jaguas retains the quiet, deliberate pace of a place defined by its long-standing relationship with the soil and the cycles of the interior highlands. While the economy has shifted over the generations from intensive agricultural cultivation to a more dispersed, modern labor structure, the rhythm of the day remains tethered to the physical demands of the landscape. Residents often seek the shaded quiet of the Unknown Local Park to escape the midday heat, a space that serves as a modest social anchor for the surrounding district. Life in Jaguas is marked by a persistent sense of presence, where the proximity to the rugged interior ensures that the modern world arrives in fragments rather than waves, leaving the character of the place intact against the slow, steady erosion of time.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 1.2 mi, 165° S
  • Reserva Nacional de Investigación Estuarina de Bahía de Jobos (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 164° S
  • Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 070° E
  • Parque de Salinas (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 314° NW
  • Bosque Estatal de Aguirre (Marine Protected Area) — 3.1 mi, 101° E
  • Reserva Natural Punta Petrona (State Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 265° W
  • Parque Nacional Punta Guilarte (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 106° E
  • El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 7.7 mi, 054° NE · 29k acres
  • Bosque Estatal de Carite (State Resource Management Area) — 11.5 mi, 057° NE
  • El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 34.1 mi, 052° NE · 10k acres
  • Rio Mameyes, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 39.1 mi, 056° NE · 1,219 acres
  • Vieques National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.1 mi, 078° E · 52k acres

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About This Jaguas Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jaguas, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 17.968855, -66.264612. 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 Jaguas includes the ZIP code (00638), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Ciales 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.