Culebra
Culebra is a small Caribbean island, mostly covered in nature preserve that lies about 20 miles east of Puerto Rico and 12 miles west of Saint Thomas. Culebra is administered as a municipality of Puerto Rico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,440 residents
- Description: island-municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Culebra Island”, “Culebra Municipio”, “Culebra PR”, “Culebra, PR”, “Culebra, Puerto Rico”, “Dewey”, and “Isla de Culebra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport and Tamarindo Beach.
Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Mtmelendez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport is a public use airport on the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico. The airport is owned by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority.
Cayo Luis Peña
Island
Photo: Joelmaners, CC BY 3.0.
Cayo Luis Peña, formerly South West Key, is a small uninhabited island off the west coast of Culebra, an island municipality of Puerto Rico. The island is a nature reserve which forms part of the Culebra National Wildlife Refuge. Cayo Luis Peña is situated 3½ km west of Culebra.
Culebra
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.3031° or 18° 18′ 11″ northLongitude
-65.3001° or 65° 18′ 0″ westPopulation
1,440Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)Abbreviation
“CUL”Open location code
77CP8M3X+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1946595440OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Culebra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوليبرا”
- Belarusian: “Кулебра”
- Bishnupriya: “কুলেব্রা, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Cebuano: “Isla de Culebra”
- Chinese: “库莱布拉岛”
- Chinese: “庫萊布拉島”
- Croatian: “Culebra”
- Czech: “Culebra”
- Dutch: “Culebra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “کوليبرا”
- Esperanto: “Culebra”
- Estonian: “Culebra”
- French: “Culebra”
- Georgian: “კულებრა (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “კულებრა”
- German: “Culebra”
- Gilaki: “کۊلبرا (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “کۊلبرا”
- Greek: “Κουλέμπρα”
- Irish: “Culebra”
- Italian: “Culebra”
- Italian: “Isla de San Idelfonso”
- Italian: “Isla Pasaje”
- Japanese: “クレブラ島”
- Latvian: “Kulebra”
- Lithuanian: “Kulebra”
- Polish: “Culebra”
- Portuguese: “Culebra”
- Russian: “Кулебра”
- Serbian: “Кулебра (Порторико)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Culebra, Puerto Rico”
- Silesian: “Culebra (Portoryko)”
- Silesian: “Culebra”
- Slovak: “Culebra”
- Slovenian: “Culebra Island”
- Slovenian: “Culebra”
- Slovenian: “Isla de Culebra”
- Spanish: “Culebra”
- Spanish: “Isla Culebra (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Isla Culebra”
- Spanish: “Isla de Culebra”
- Spanish: “San Ildefonso de la Culebra”
- Swedish: “Culebra”
- Turkish: “Culebra”
- Ukrainian: “Кулебра”
- Urdu: “کولیبرا، پورٹو ریکو”
- Vietnamese: “Culebra, Puerto Rico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Culebra, Puerto Rico”
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