Explore Miranda, 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 Miranda, 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 Miranda.
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 | Miranda |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Vega Baja County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.386616 |
| Longitude | -66.383781 |
| Population | 961 |
| Density | 271.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00693 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
Miranda occupies a landscape defined by the rhythmic pulse of the Río Indio, which carves a path through the verdant basin of Quebrada Laguna. It lies 4.0 miles south of Vega Baja, PR (from Vega Baja, PR: bearing 176°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west-southwest of Dorado. The air here holds a heavy, humid sweetness, often carrying the scent of damp earth and salt-tinged breezes that drift inland from the Boca del Cibuco seven miles away. To the south, the Montañas de Corozal rise like a jagged, violet-hued spine against the sky, anchoring the horizon and cooling the evening temperatures as the sun descends. The terrain of Miranda is a mosaic of limestone outcrops and lush, tangled vegetation, where the light at dusk softens into a bruised gold, illuminating the dense canopy of the nearby Bosque Estatal de Vega.
History in Miranda remains etched into the quiet endurance of its people, who have long balanced the demands of agricultural cycles with the shifting tides of the modern economy. While the proximity to the coast suggests an orientation toward the sea, the life of the inhabitants is tethered to the fertile soil and the slow, deliberate flow of local watercourses. Residents often venture toward the distant Isletas de Garzas for respite, yet they return to the steady hum of a locality that values the intimacy of its own geography over the clamor of larger centers. The economy persists through a blend of small-scale enterprise and the preservation of traditional land use, maintaining a character that feels both deeply rooted in its ancestral past and quietly watchful of the changing world beyond its borders.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Miranda, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.386616, -66.383781. 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 Miranda includes the ZIP code (00693), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Vega Baja 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. |