Dorado
Dorado is a town and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, 15 miles west of San Juan and is located in the northern region of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Toa Alta, east of Vega Alta, and west of Toa Baja.- Type: Town with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Dorado (Puerto Rico)”, “Dorado PR”, “Dorado, PR”, “Dorado, Puerto Rico”, “municipalité de Dorado”, “Municipio Autónomo de Dorado”, “Municipio de Dorado”, and “San Antonio del Dorado”
- Postal code: 00646
- Neighbors: Toa Alta, Toa Baja, and Vega Alta
Places of Interest
Highlights: Jacinto Lopez Martinez Grammar School and Antonio López.
Antonio López
Disaster remains
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toa Baja.
Dorado
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico and locality
- Location: Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.4595° or 18° 27′ 34″ north
Longitude
-66.2619° or 66° 15′ 43″ west
Population
12,200
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
DDP
UN/LOCODE
PR DDP
Open location code
77CMFP5Q+Q6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Dorado” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዶራዶ”
- Arabic: “دورادو”
- Azerbaijani: “Dorado”
- Bengali: “ডোরাডো”
- Bishnupriya: “ডোরাডো, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Bishnupriya: “ডোরাডো”
- Catalan: “Dorado, Puerto Rico”
- Catalan: “Dorado”
- Cebuano: “Dorado Municipio”
- Cebuano: “Dorado”
- Chinese: “多拉多”
- Dutch: “Dorado”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دورادو، پويرتو ريكو”
- French: “Dorado”
- Georgian: “დორადო (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “დორადო”
- German: “Dorado”
- Gilaki: “دؤرادؤ (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “دؤرادؤ”
- Hausa: “Dorado”
- Hindi: “डोराडो”
- Indonesian: “Dorado, Puerto Riko”
- Indonesian: “Dorado”
- Irish: “Dorado”
- Italian: “Dorado”
- Japanese: “ドラード”
- Japanese: “ドラド (プエルトリコ)”
- Javanese: “Dorado”
- Kazakh: “Дорадо”
- Kirghiz: “Дорадо”
- Ladin: “Dorado”
- Malay: “Dorado”
- Oromo: “Dorado”
- Panjabi: “ਡੋਰਾਡੋ”
- Persian: “دورادو، پورتوریکو”
- Persian: “دورادو”
- Polish: “Dorado”
- Portuguese: “Dorado”
- Pushto: “دورادو”
- Russian: “Дорадо”
- Serbian: “Дорадо (Порторико)”
- Serbian: “Дорадо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dorado, Puerto Rico”
- Somali: “Dorado”
- Spanish: “Dorado”
- Swahili: “Dorado”
- Tajik: “Дорадо”
- Tatar: “Дорадо”
- Turkish: “Dorado”
- Ukrainian: “Дорадо”
- Urdu: “دورادو، پورٹو ریکو”
- Uzbek: “Dorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dorado, Puerto Rico”
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