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Palomas Puerto Rico Map

Explore Palomas, 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 Palomas, Puerto Rico

How to Use This Palomas, Puerto Rico Map

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

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.

CityPalomas
StatePuerto Rico (PR)
CountyComerío County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneAtlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico)
Latitude18.232456
Longitude-66.25628
DensityN/A /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code00782
Area Code787, 939

About Palomas, Puerto Rico

Palomas is a locality in Comerío County, Puerto Rico, United States. Palomas is located at 18.2325°N, 66.2563°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00782.

Palomas occupies a quiet, rugged expanse of the central interior, where the land rises in persistent, verdant swells toward the distant silhouette of the Montanas de Juan Gonzalez. It lies 8.5 miles south-southeast of Corozal, PR (from Corozal, PR: bearing 152°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north of Aibonito. The atmosphere holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the skin, punctuated by the rhythmic rush of the Río Hondo as it carves through the earth a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate canopy, the landscape dips into the deep, shadowed creases of Quebrada Grande, while the distant, silver-gray surface of Represa de Comerío catches the fading light of late afternoon. At the edge of the residential grid, the Baseball field and sports provides a flat, manicured clearing where the dust of the afternoon settles under the watchful gaze of the surrounding canopy.

Generations in Palomas have looked to the soil, shaping a life defined by the cycles of the central highlands and a persistent, quiet endurance. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, drawing sustenance from the labor of cultivation that defines this region’s identity. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned cadence, far removed from the frantic pace of the northern plains, yet connected to the wider world through the shared history of the interior. On clear days, the mist clings to the slopes, and the distant, thunderous resonance of El Salto Grande serves as a reminder of the water that sustains the valley’s lifeblood. It is a place where the weight of time is felt in the texture of the masonry and the steady, familiar faces that gather at the local sports grounds as the sun dips below the jagged horizon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Baseball field and sports (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 265° W
  • Área Natural Protegida Cañón Las Bocas (State Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 227° SW
  • Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 039° NE
  • Bosque Estatal de Monte Choca (State Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 327° NW
  • Refugio de Vida Silvestre Lago La Plata (State Conservation Area) — 6.5 mi, 014° N
  • Bosque Estatal de Carite (State Resource Management Area) — 12.6 mi, 123° SE
  • El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 13.5 mi, 154° SE · 29k acres
  • Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 18.2 mi, 324° NW
  • Punta Petrona Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 19.6 mi, 198° S
  • Parque Nacional Punta Guilarte (State Park) — 20.1 mi, 162° S
  • El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 26.6 mi, 084° E · 10k acres
  • Vieques National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.2 mi, 100° E · 52k acres

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About This Palomas Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Palomas, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.232456, -66.25628. 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 Palomas includes the ZIP code (00782), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Comerío 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.