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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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  • Type: City with 39,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Arasibo”, “Arecibo Municipio”, “Arecibo PR”, “Arecibo, PR”, “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”, “Arecivo”, “Arezibo”, “Ariezibo”, “Arrec2 bo”, “El Arecibo”, “La Ribera del A recibo”, and “La Villa del Capitan Correa”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arecibo Lighthouse and Estadio Luis Rodríguez Olmo.

Photo: Darwininan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
& Historical Park is a historic lighthouse located in the city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It is also known as Los Morrillos Lighthouse and is as a monument to Puerto Rico's complex history under Spanish colonial rule.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Arecibo, . It is currently used mostly for baseball games and is the home of Lobos de Arecibo. The stadium holds 9,000 people.

Church
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The Cathedral of St. Philip the Apostle is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and the seat of the Diocese of Arecibo since its establishment in 1960.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bajadero.

Quarter
is a community in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,710. Three barrios border each other and each contains a section of the community.

Arecibo

Latitude
18.472° or 18° 28′ 19″ north
Longitude
-66.7162° or 66° 42′ 58″ west
Population
39,600
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
ARE
United Nations Location Code
PR ARE
Open location code
77CMF7CM+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1944426456
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4562635
Wiki­data ID
Q640728
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Arecibo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أريسيبو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aresibo”
  • Basque: “Arecibo”
  • Bengali: “আরসিবু”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “ארסיבו”
  • Hindi: “अरेसिबो”
  • Hungarian: “Arecibo”
  • Indonesian: “Arecibo”
  • Irish: “Arecibo”
  • Italian: “Arecibo”
  • Japanese: “アレシボ”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೆಸಿಬೋ”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “آرسیبو، پورتوریکو”
  • Polish: “Arecibo”
  • Portuguese: “Arecibo (porto rico)”
  • Portuguese: “Arecibo”
  • Romanian: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Russian: “Аресибо”
  • Serbian: “Аресибо (Порторико)”
  • Serbian: “Аресибо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරෙසිබෝ, පුවර්ටෝ රිකෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ඇරෙසිබෝ”
  • Spanish: “Arecibo (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Arecibo”
  • Spanish: “San Felipe de Arecibo”
  • Swahili: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Swedish: “Arecibo”
  • Tamil: “அரேகிபோ”
  • Telugu: “అరెసిబో”
  • Thai: “Arecibo”
  • Thai: “อาเรซิโบ”
  • Thai: “อาเรซีโบ”
  • Turkish: “Arecibo”
  • Ukrainian: “Аресібо (Пуерто-Рико)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аресібо”
  • Urdu: “اریسیبو، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Vietnamese: “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “Arecibo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arecibo, Puerto Rico”
  • Welsh: “Arecibo”

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