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Río Piedras

Río Piedras is a highly urbanized commercial and residential district in , the capital municipality of . Adjacent to the Hato Rey business center and concentrated in the barrios of , , , , and , it is about 4 to 7 miles from the historic quarter, and resort areas, and .
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  • Type: City with 332,000 residents
  • Description: district in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “El Roble”, “El Roble, Puerto Rico”, “Rio Piedras”, “Río Piedras PR”, “Río Piedras, PR”, “Río Piedras, Puerto Rico”, and “Río Piedras, San Juan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Loverbar and Río Piedras station.

Restaurant
was a queer bar, restaurant and nightclub located in Río Piedras, . As a queer club it was the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, with Refinery29 calling it "the queer destination for everything exciting, progressive, and radical about the Puerto Rican queer scene." It opened in 2020 and announced its closure at the end of 2021.

Metro station
Photo: vxla, CC BY 2.0.
Río Piedras is a rapid transit station in the San Juan Metropolitan Area, . It is located between and stations on the only line of the Tren Urbano system, in the downtown area of Río Piedras, in the city of .

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Rita and López Sicardó.

Neighborhood
is one of the 4 subbarrios of , itself one of 18 barrios of the municipality of . The office of Amnesty International in Puerto Rico is located in .

Neighborhood
is one of the three sectors in the barrio of Puerto Rico. is a subbarrio classified as a civil geographic unit within the San Juan Municipio of Puerto Rico.

Neighborhood
is a subbarrio, a legal subdivision of , a barrio in .

Río Piedras

Latitude
18.39742° or 18° 23′ 51″ north
Longitude
-66.05011° or 66° 3′ 0″ west
Population
332,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PR RPS
Open location code
77CM9WWX+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3207985884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4829037
Wiki­data ID
Q683206
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Río Piedras” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريو بيدراس”
  • Armenian: “Ռիո Պիեդրաս”
  • Catalan: “Río Piedras”
  • Chinese: “里奥彼德拉斯”
  • Chinese: “里奧皮德拉”
  • Chinese: “里約皮埃德拉斯公寓酒店”
  • Danish: “Río Piedras”
  • Dutch: “Río Piedras”
  • Faroese: “Río Piedras”
  • French: “Río Piedras”
  • German: “Río Piedras”
  • Hebrew: “ריו פיידראס”
  • Hungarian: “Río Piedras”
  • Icelandic: “Río Piedras”
  • Irish: “Río Piedras”
  • Italian: “Río Piedras”
  • Japanese: “リオ・ピエドラ”
  • Japanese: “リオ・ピエドラス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Río Piedras”
  • Korean: “리오피에드라스”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Piedras”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Río Piedras”
  • Portuguese: “Río Piedras”
  • Russian: “Рио-Пиедрас”
  • Slovenian: “Río Piedras”
  • Spanish: “El Roble (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Río Piedras (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Río Piedras (San Juan)”
  • Spanish: “Río Piedras”
  • Swedish: “Río Piedras”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріо-Піедрас”
  • Welsh: “Río Piedras”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Río Piedras”. Photo: Moebiusuibeom-en, CC BY-SA 4.0.