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Las Gaviotas Puerto Rico Map

Explore Las Gaviotas, 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 Las Gaviotas, Puerto Rico

How to Use This Las Gaviotas, Puerto Rico Map

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

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	Las Gaviotas
State	Puerto Rico (PR)
County	Toa Baja County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico)

Latitude	18.437083
Longitude	-66.190719
Population	476
Density	4811.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	00952
Area Code	787, 939

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About Las Gaviotas, Puerto Rico

Las Gaviotas is a locality in Toa Baja County, Puerto Rico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 476. The population density is 4811.8 people per km². Las Gaviotas is located at 18.4371°N, 66.1907°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00952.

Las Gaviotas asserts its presence through the humid, salt-heavy breath of the Atlantic, where the low-lying terrain gives way to the rhythmic pulse of the tides. It lies 2.6 miles north-northeast of Candelaria, PR (from Candelaria, PR: bearing 27°T), and is situated 5.9 miles west-southwest of San Juan. The air here holds a distinct, metallic clarity that refracts the afternoon light into long, amber ribbons across the flat landscape, occasionally revealing the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Montañas de Corozal against the horizon. A mile to the west, the waters of the Lagos de Levitttown mirror the heavy, bruised clouds of the coming evening, while the nearby Caño El Hato cuts a quiet, dark vein through the earth, drawing the moisture of the lowlands toward the sea. Residents often find their way to the 5ta A Parque Pasivo to catch the cooling drafts that drift inland from the Ensenada de Boca Vieja, feeling the subtle transition where the urban edges soften into the wild, tangled greenery that defines this corner of the island.

History in Las Gaviotas is not written in grand monuments but in the persistent, evolving commerce of a population that balances the legacy of the interior with the necessities of the coastal periphery. The local economy persists with a steady, pragmatic movement, echoing the labor of those who once looked toward the central highlands for sustenance and now navigate the intersections of modern regional trade. From the vantage of the shore, one might spot the Isla de las Palomas rising from the surf like a fractured stone, a reminder of the geography that dictates the slow, deliberate pace of the neighborhood. Life here maintains a grounded frequency; there is a certain dignity in the way the morning traffic hums toward the nearby Paseo del Morro, a path that links the present moment to the enduring, weathered stone of the past. Even as the sun dips low and the shadows of the mangroves lengthen, Las Gaviotas remains a place of quiet transition, suspended between the vast, restless blue of the coast and the solid, unyielding earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Parque y Complejo Deportivo Avoli (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 077° E
Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 077° E
Reserva Natural Ciénaga Las Cucharillas (State Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 079° E
Reserva Natural Caño Martín Peña (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 092° E
Caño Martín Peña Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 6.7 mi, 092° E
Bosque Estatal de Piñones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 13.2 mi, 084° E
El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 22.5 mi, 121° SE · 29k acres
El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 24.6 mi, 113° SE · 10k acres
Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 27.9 mi, 111° E · 708 acres
Rio Mameyes, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 29.2 mi, 105° E · 1,219 acres
Vieques National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.8 mi, 118° SE · 52k acres

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