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.
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.
| City | Jaguas |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Salinas County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 17.968855 |
| Longitude | -66.264612 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00638 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
Jaguas emerges from the coastal plain as a landscape defined by the persistent, humid breath of the Caribbean, where the land gradually rises from the low-lying salt marshes to meet the inland horizon. It lies 10.0 miles west of Guayama, PR (from Guayama, PR: bearing 264°T), and is situated 9.8 miles southeast of Coamo. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality, casting long shadows across the fields that stretch toward the shimmering expanse of Bahía de Jobos. To the east, the waters of the Río Nigua carve a slow, meandering path through the earth, feeding the mangroves that fringe the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. In the distance, the silhouettes of Las Piedras Chiquitas anchor the sky, while the nearby silhouette of Cayo Mata punctuates the blue, serving as a quiet sentry for the tides that pulse rhythmically toward the shore.
Jaguas retains the quiet gravity of a place shaped by centuries of agrarian patience, where the local economy continues to honor the deep-rooted connection to the soil and the nearby sea. The memory of older, labor-intensive harvests lingers in the stillness of the afternoon, contrasting with the modern, deliberate pace of those who work to protect the delicate ecological balance of the surrounding wetlands and the Quebrada Honda basin. Life in Jaguas moves in accordance with the seasonal migrations of birds and the shifting moods of the climate, creating a culture that is both localized and expansive, holding a steady gaze toward the wider world while remaining tethered to the familiar, rhythmic labor of the land.
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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 Salinas 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. |