Lares
Lares is a municipality and town of Puerto Rico located in the western mountainous Cordillera Central region of the island. The town is most popularly known for the Grito de Lares, a failed 1868 uprising against the Spanish colonial rule which has become a landmark of Puerto Rico's history.Lares
- Type: Suburb with 28,100 residents
- Also known as: “Lares Municipio”
- Category: locality
- Location: Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.2944° or 18° 17′ 40″ north
Longitude
-66.8429° or 66° 50′ 35″ west
Population
28,100
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
Abbreviation
“LAR”
Open location code
77CM75V4+QR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Lares” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላረስ”
- Azerbaijani: “Lares”
- Bengali: “লারেস”
- French: “Lares”
- German: “Lares”
- Hausa: “Lares”
- Japanese: “ラレス”
- Javanese: “Lares”
- Kazakh: “Lares”
- Kirghiz: “Lares”
- Malay: “Lares”
- Oromo: “Lares”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਰੇਸ”
- Persian: “لارس”
- Portuguese: “Lares”
- Pushto: “لارس”
- Somali: “Lares”
- Spanish: “Lares”
- Swahili: “Lares”
- Tajik: “Lares”
- Tatar: “Lares”
- Uzbek: “Lares”
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