Quebrada Prieta Puerto Rico Map
Explore Quebrada Prieta, 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 Quebrada Prieta, Puerto Rico
How to Use This Quebrada Prieta, Puerto Rico Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Quebrada Prieta, 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 Quebrada Prieta.
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 | Quebrada Prieta |
| State | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| County | Canóvanas County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) |
| Latitude | 18.298756 |
| Longitude | -65.908637 |
| Population | 992 |
| Density | 133.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| Area Code | 787, 939 |
About Quebrada Prieta, Puerto Rico
Quebrada Prieta is a locality in Canóvanas County, Puerto Rico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 992. The population density is 133.5 people per km². Quebrada Prieta is located at 18.2988°N, 65.9086°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone.Quebrada Prieta reveals itself as a landscape of dense greenery and humid, heavy air, where the persistent current of the Río Canovanillas carves a path through the earth just a short distance from the residential centers. It lies 6.5 miles south-southeast of Carolina, PR (from Carolina, PR: bearing 151°T), and is situated 7.5 miles east-southeast of Trujillo Alto. The terrain rises steadily toward the rugged silhouette of Cerro Pitahaya, which looms two miles away, while the verdant canopy of El Yunque National Forest creates a dark, serrated edge against the sky on the horizon. Sunlight here has a peculiar, thickening quality, catching the moisture in the air until the afternoons turn a bruised, heavy gold. Within these folds of land, the Parque Víctor Velázquez Carrasquillo serves as a quiet common space, marking the intersection of natural growth and human maintenance, while the nearby basin of Quebrada González directs the flow of rainwater through the soil, sustaining the vibrant, waxy leaves of tropical flora that crowd the roadsides.
Quebrada Prieta maintains a steady, internal pace, far removed from the pressures of commerce, as the local economy continues to draw sustenance from the small-scale cultivation that has defined this interior region for generations. History here is felt in the quiet persistence of the families who occupy the land, their lives organized around the seasonal rhythms of the forest and the steady, unobserved labor required to keep the encroaching vegetation at bay. While the distant, expansive waters of Lago Carite remain nineteen miles away and the Recreacion Nacional Sendero de las Vientos offers a more rigorous trek six miles to the north, the daily existence in Quebrada Prieta remains tethered to the immediate, intimate geography of the hills. The character of the place is defined by this sense of being settled in the interior, where the silence of the woods provides a counterpoint to the voices of those working the land, creating a lingering, contemplative atmosphere that persists long after the sun dips behind the high, shadowed ridges.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Parque Víctor Velázquez Carrasquillo (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 252° W
- El Yunque National Forest (National Forest) — 2.0 mi, 152° SE · 29k acres
- Luquillo Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 2.0 mi, 152° SE
- Unknown Local Park (Local Park) — 3.2 mi, 352° N
- El Toro Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 4.0 mi, 110° E · 10k acres
- Reserva Natural Torrecilla Alta (proposed) (State Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 356° N
- Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 7.6 mi, 094° E · 708 acres
- Rio De La Mina, Puerto Rico Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 7.7 mi, 086° E · 623 acres
- Bano De Oro Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 8.1 mi, 092° E
- Río Espíritu Santo Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 8.3 mi, 045° NE
- Reserva Natural del Río Espíritu Santo (State Conservation Area) — 8.3 mi, 045° NE
- Bosque Estatal de Piñones Natural Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 9.3 mi, 348° N
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About This Quebrada Prieta Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Quebrada Prieta, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.298756, -65.908637. 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 Quebrada Prieta includes the ZIP code, telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Canóvanas 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. |
