San Antonio Puerto Rico Map

About San Antonio, Puerto Rico

San Antonio is a locality in Ponce County, Puerto Rico, United States. San Antonio is located at 18.0800°N, 66.9732°W. It observes the Atlantic Standard Time — no DST (America/Puerto_Rico) timezone. ZIP code: 00603.

San Antonio breathes under a heavy, salt-sweetened air that drifts inland from the nearby Ponce Harbor, tempering the heat of the tropical sun. It lies 1.3 miles west-southwest of Ponce, PR (from Ponce, PR: bearing 253°T), and is situated 6.6 miles west of Aguilita. The landscape around San Antonio unfolds as a series of verdant slopes that drop toward the basin of Quebrada del Agua, where the earth holds moisture long after the rain has retreated. A mile away, the Río Cañas carves a steady, silver path through the lowlands, its banks thick with the tangled growth of palms and wild grasses. To the north, the jagged silhouette of Cuchilla de Monte Llano marks the horizon, a reminder of the rugged interior that separates this coastal plain from the higher reaches of Bosque Estatal de Guilarte. Within the immediate boundaries of the land, Parque Padre Santiago Iglesia offers a small, quiet sanctuary of shade where the light filters through the canopy in sharp, golden slivers during the late afternoon.

Trade and daily life in San Antonio reflect a long, layered history of migration and agricultural endurance, where the proximity to the sea has always dictated the rhythm of movement. The economy remains tethered to the pulse of the coast, with goods and labor flowing toward the harbor, while the nearby Gata Islets stand as quiet sentinels in the blue expanse beyond the shore. Those who walk the Vereda Alcantarilla three miles out find a path that connects the modern inhabitant to the older, slower ways of traversing the scrub and woodland. Even as the modern world encroaches, the people maintain a distinct sense of place, their lives punctuated by the hum of the nearby water and the distant, cooling influence of Lago Garzas. The afternoon light here possesses a peculiar, amber clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the buildings and the deep green of the foliage, grounding the spirit in the specific, unyielding geography of the island.

About This San Antonio Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. Coordinates: 18.079961, -66.973233. 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 San Antonio includes the ZIP code (00603), telephone area code (787, 939), county seat of Ponce County, and school district assignment.

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.