María Antonia Puerto Rico Map

About María Antonia, Puerto Rico

María Antonia is a locality in Guánica County, Puerto Rico, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,090. The population density is 872.1 people per km². María Antonia is located at 17.9837°N, 66.9029°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone.

María Antonia stretches across a landscape defined by the convergence of arid scrub and the persistent, humid breath of the Caribbean air. It lies 5.0 miles southwest of Yauco, PR (from Yauco, PR: bearing 225°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south-southeast of Sabana Grande. The terrain here is shaped by the proximity of the Bosque Estatal de Guánica, a protected expanse that casts a long, silent shadow over the local topography, while the Río Loco cuts a singular, winding path toward the coast just a mile away. To the north, the sharp silhouette of Cerro Caprón rises against the horizon, anchoring the view and providing a constant, rocky reference point for the low-lying plains. As the sun dips toward the Bahía Noroeste, the light turns a bruised gold, catching the dust of the dry earth and illuminating the sparse, hardy vegetation that clings to the Hoya El Ber.

History in María Antonia is written in the slow reclamation of the land by the heat and the salt-heavy winds that drift inward from the nearby shore. The economy has long been tethered to the rhythms of the soil and the seasonal shifts of the tropical climate, where the labor of the past remains etched in the irrigation channels and the sun-bleached structures of the locality. Residents move with a quiet deliberation, their daily routines often guided by the Fuerte Trail, which serves as a passage through the brush toward the rugged, protected lands nearby. While the distant, shimmering outline of Gilligans Island remains visible across the water, the focus of María Antonia stays firmly on the immediate, sun-drenched reality of a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the dry rustle of leaves and the distant, rhythmic hum of the coast.

About This María Antonia Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of María Antonia, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 17.983692, -66.902939. 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 María Antonia includes the ZIP code, telephone area code, county seat of Guánica County, and school district assignment.

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.