Cabo Rojo
Cabo Rojo, named after the red-colored limestone cliffs on its coast, is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Porta del Sol tourism region. The city is famous for its pirate legends, its beaches, its nature and its lighthouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jerjes Medina Albino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Jerjes Medina Albino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 8,230 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Cabo Rojo Municipio”, “Cabo Rojo PR”, “Cabo Rojo, PR”, “Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico”, and “El Pueblo”
- Neighbors: Hormigueros, Lajas, Mayagüez, and San Germán
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Miguel Arcángel Church.
San Miguel Arcángel Church
Church
Photo: Demf, Public domain.
Iglesia San Miguel Arcángel is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Construction on the building started in 1773 and was completed in 1783.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hormigueros.
Hormigueros
Photo: Jcarrillovii, Public domain.
Hormigueros is a town and one of the smallest municipalities of Puerto Rico, located on the island's southwestern coast in the Porta del Sol tourism region.
Cabo Rojo
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico and locality
- Location: Porta del Sol, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.087° or 18° 5′ 13″ northLongitude
-67.1459° or 67° 8′ 45″ westPopulation
8,230Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)United Nations Location Code
PR CBJOpen location code
77CJ3VP3+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1944602613OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Cabo Rojo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابو روخو”
- Bishnupriya: “কাবো রোজো, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Bishnupriya: “কাবো রোজো”
- Catalan: “Cabo Rojo”
- Cebuano: “Cabo Rojo Municipio”
- Cebuano: “Cabo Rojo”
- Chinese: “卡沃羅霍”
- Danish: “Cabo Rojo”
- Dutch: “Cabo Rojo”
- Esperanto: “Cabo Rojo”
- French: “Cabo Rojo”
- French: “municipalité de Cabo Rojo”
- Georgian: “კაბო-როხო (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “კაბო-როხო”
- German: “Cabo Rojo”
- Gilaki: “کابؤ رؤخؤ (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “کابؤ رؤخؤ”
- Irish: “Cabo Rojo”
- Italian: “Cabo Rojo”
- Japanese: “カボ・ロッホ”
- Japanese: “カボ・ロホ”
- Ladin: “Cabo Rojo”
- Persian: “کابو روخو، پورتوریکو”
- Polish: “Cabo Rojo”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Rojo”
- Russian: “Кабо-Рохо (Пуэрто-Рико)”
- Russian: “Кабо-Рохо”
- Serbian: “Кабо Рохо (Порторико)”
- Serbian: “Кабо Рохо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico”
- Spanish: “Cabo Rojo (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Cabo Rojo”
- Spanish: “Municipio Autónomo de Cabo Rojo”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Cabo Rojo”
- Spanish: “San Miguel de Cabo Rojo”
- Swedish: “Cabo Rojo”
- Ukrainian: “Кабо-Рохо”
- Urdu: “کابو روخو، پورٹو ریکو”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cabo Rojo”. Photo: Jerjes Medina Albino, CC BY-SA 3.0.