Pajonal Puerto Rico Map
Explore Pajonal, 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 Pajonal, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Pajonal, Puerto Rico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pajonal, 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 Pajonal.
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 | Pajonal |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Florida County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.382171 |
| Longitude | -66.555728 |
| Population | 468 |
| Density | 750.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 00650 |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
About Pajonal, Puerto Rico
Pajonal is a locality in Florida County, Puerto Rico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 468. The population density is 750.9 people per km². Pajonal is located at 18.3822°N, 66.5557°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00650.Pajonal emerges from the verdant, humid lowlands as a quiet sentinel of the northern plains, where the heavy, moisture-laden air clings to the skin like a warm silk shroud. It lies 11.8 miles west-southwest of Vega Baja, PR (from Vega Baja, PR: bearing 249°T), and is situated 7.1 miles southwest of Tierras Nuevas Poniente. The landscape surrounding Pajonal is defined by the fertile, low-lying expanse of Los Canos, a basin that drinks deeply from the frequent tropical rains and cradles the earth in a persistent, emerald embrace. To the south, the distant silhouette of the Cuchilla Buena Vista rises against the horizon, a serrated edge of indigo against the pale sky, while the proximity of the Cambalache State Forest provides a thick, tangled canopy of endemic flora. Nearby, the Unknown Local Park serves as the immediate green lung for the inhabitants, offering a patch of untamed growth where the light at dusk filters through the leaves in long, golden shafts, turning the dust motes into suspended amber.
The passage of time in Pajonal is marked less by the calendar and more by the steady, rhythmic pulse of the Río Grande de Manati, which winds its way toward the distant salt air of Mar Chiquita. While the coastal tides pull at the imagination from eight miles away, the economy here remains tethered to the soil and the slow, deliberate work of the fields, echoing a history of agrarian labor that has long defined the character of the people. This is a place that holds a sense of both here and elsewhere, where the memory of the central coffee highlands lingers in the flavor of the morning brew, even as the proximity to the sea suggests a life turned outward. Though the currents of the modern world flow nearby, Pajonal maintains a distinct, grounded stillness, a quiet resilience that persists even as the shadows stretch long across the valley floor and the first stars begin to prick the darkening canopy above.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 301° NW
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 1.3 mi, 056° NE · 29k acres
- Bosque Estatal de Cambalache (State Resource Management Area) — 2.1 mi, 303° NW
- Parque Montebello (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 112° E
- Forest Legacy Program acquisition - Finca CDK1_Guillermety (State Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 229° SW
- Reserva Natural Caño Tiburones (State Conservation Area) — 5.8 mi, 344° N
- Caño Tiburones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 5.8 mi, 344° N
- Hacienda La Esperanza Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 7.1 mi, 012° N
- Bosque Estatal de Río Abajo (State Resource Management Area) — 8.4 mi, 257° W
- Cavernas del Río Camuy (State Park) — 17.4 mi, 262° W
- El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 46.7 mi, 099° E · 10k acres
- Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 48.4 mi, 235° SW · 5,583 acres
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About This Pajonal Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pajonal, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.382171, -66.555728. 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 Pajonal includes the ZIP code (00650), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Florida 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. |
