Arecibo

Arecibo is a city of 88,000 people on the north coast of , and was best known for its giant radio telescope, which collapsed in late 2020. It is one of Puerto Rico's oldest colonial-era settlements, dating from 1616.
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  • City with about 87,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ARE
  • Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
  • Also known as
    “Arasibo”
    “Arecibo Municipio”
    “Arecibo, PR”
    “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
    “Arecivo”
    “Arezibo”
    “Ariezibo”
    “Arrec2 bo”
    “El Arecibo”
    “La Ribera del A recibo”
    “La Villa del Capitan Correa”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arecibo Lighthouse and Estadio Luis Rodríguez Olmo.
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The & Historical Park is located in the city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Stadium
was a multi-use in Arecibo, .
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Church
The Cathedral of St. Philip the Apostle is the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bajadero.
Quarter
is a community in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Arecibo

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Latitude
18.472° or 18° 28′ 19″ north
Longitude
-66.7162° or 66° 42′ 58″ west
UN/LOCODE
PR ARE
Open location code
77CMF7CM+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1944426456
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4562635
Wiki­data ID
Q640728

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Arecibo” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አሬሲቦ”
  • Arabic: “أريسيبو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arecibo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aresibo”
  • Basque: “Arecibo”
  • Bengali: “আরেসিবো”
  • Bishnupriya: “আরেকিবো, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Catalan: “Arecibo”
  • Cebuano: “Arecibo”
  • Chinese: “阿雷斯保”
  • Chinese: “阿雷西沃”
  • Czech: “Arecibo”
  • Danish: “Arecibo”
  • Dutch: “Arecibo (Puerto Rico)”
  • Dutch: “Arecibo”
  • Esperanto: “Arecibo (Porto-Riko)”
  • Esperanto: “Arecibo”
  • Finnish: “Arecibo”
  • French: “Arecibo”
  • French: “municipalité d’Arecibo”
  • Galician: “Arecibo”
  • Georgian: “არესიბო (პუერტო-რიკო)”
  • Georgian: “არესიბო”
  • German: “Arecibo”
  • Gilaki: “آرسيبؤ (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “آرسيبؤ”
  • Greek: “Αρεσίμπο”
  • Gujarati: “અરેસિબો”
  • Hausa: “Arecibo”
  • Hebrew: “ארסיבו”
  • Hindi: “अरेसिबो”
  • Hungarian: “Arecibo”
  • Indonesian: “Arecibo, Puerto Riko”
  • Indonesian: “Arecibo”
  • Irish: “Arecibo”
  • Italian: “Arecibo”
  • Japanese: “アレシボ”
  • Javanese: “Arecibo”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೆಸಿಬೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Арресибо”
  • Kirghiz: “Арресибо”
  • Korean: “아레시보”
  • Ladin: “Arecibo”
  • Latvian: “Arecibo”
  • Lithuanian: “Aresibas”
  • Macedonian: “Аресибо (Порторико)”
  • Macedonian: “Аресибо”
  • Malay: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Malay: “Arecibo”
  • Marathi: “अरिशिओ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arecibo (Puerto Rico)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arecibo”
  • Norwegian: “Arecibo”
  • Oromo: “Arecibo”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੇਸੀਬੋ”
  • Persian: “آرسیبو، پورتوریکو”
  • Persian: “آرسیبو”
  • Polish: “Arecibo”
  • Portuguese: “Arecibo (porto rico)”
  • Portuguese: “Arecibo”
  • Pushto: “اريسيبو”
  • Romanian: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Russian: “Аресибо”
  • Russian: “Арресибо”
  • Serbian: “Аресибо (Порторико)”
  • Serbian: “Аресибо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරෙසිබෝ, පුවර්ටෝ රිකෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරෙසිබෝ”
  • Slovak: “Arecibo”
  • Somali: “Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “Arecibo (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “San Felipe de Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “San Felipe del Arecibo”
  • Swahili: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Swahili: “Arecibo”
  • Swedish: “Arecibo”
  • Tajik: “Арресибо”
  • Tamil: “அரேகிபோ”
  • Tatar: “Арресибо”
  • Telugu: “అరెసిబో”
  • Thai: “Arecibo”
  • Thai: “อาเรซีโบ”
  • Turkish: “Arecibo”
  • Ukrainian: “Аресібо (Пуерто-Рико)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аресібо”
  • Urdu: “اریسیبو، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Urdu: “اریسیبو”
  • Uzbek: “Arecibo”
  • Vietnamese: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “Arecibo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Welsh: “Arecibo”

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