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Palmarejo Puerto Rico Map

Explore Palmarejo, 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 Palmarejo, Puerto Rico

How to Use This Palmarejo, Puerto Rico Map

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

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	Palmarejo
State	Puerto Rico (PR)
County	Lajas County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico)

Latitude	18.042186
Longitude	-66.553228
Population	1,400
Density	956.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	00769
Area Code	787, 939

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About Palmarejo, Puerto Rico

Palmarejo is a locality in Lajas County, Puerto Rico, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,400. The population density is 956.2 people per km². Palmarejo is located at 18.0422°N, 66.5532°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00769.

Palmarejo breathes under a wide, salt-heavy sky where the humidity clings to the skin like a memory of the sea. It lies 7.6 miles south-southeast of Hormigueros, PR (from Hormigueros, PR: bearing 154°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-southwest of Sabana Grande. The landscape unfolds as a series of sun-bleached slopes, anchored three miles away by the rugged, verdant spine of La Cuchilla, which keeps watch over the lowlands. Beneath the town’s feet, the earth dips into the quiet moisture of Quebrada Plantina, a basin that drinks the seasonal rains and sustains the deep green of the local vegetation. Though the horizon is marked by the distant blue of Caleta Parguera, the immediate terrain is defined by a slow, terrestrial patience, where the wind carries the scent of dry brush and the faint, briny promise of the coast five miles to the south.

Palmarejo keeps its own time, a rhythm dictated by the sun’s transit over the nearby fields and the quiet commerce of the Unknown Local Park, where the community gathers in the shadow of shifting clouds. The economy here is tethered to the land and the nearby waterways, with the steady, winding path of Río Viejo serving as a silent witness to generations who have worked the soil and looked toward the distant silhouettes of Cayo Bayo. History here is not found in grand monuments but in the way the light hits the weathered fences and the enduring, deliberate pace of those who walk the roads. Life in Palmarejo reflects a balance between the ancient pull of the island’s interior and the inevitable call of the water, a place where people exist with a calm, watchful grace.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Athletic Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 142° SE
Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 129° SE
Bosque Estatal de Cerrillos (State Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 328° NW
Bosque Estatal de Guánica (State Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 180° S
Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro (State Resource Management Area) — 7.2 mi, 005° N
Caja de Muertos Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 8.0 mi, 150° SE
Bosque Estatal de Tres Picachos (State Resource Management Area) — 10.3 mi, 007° N
Punta Petrona Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 11.5 mi, 122° SE
El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 24.2 mi, 003° N · 29k acres
Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.1 mi, 266° W · 540 acres
Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.0 mi, 264° W · 5,583 acres
El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 48.6 mi, 071° E · 10k acres

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