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Dorado

Dorado is a and municipality on the northern coast of , 15 miles west of and is located in the northern region of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of , east of , and west of .
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  • Type: Town with 12,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Dorado Municipio”, “Dorado PR”, “Dorado, PR”, and “Dorado, Puerto Rico”
  • Postal code: 00646
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jacinto Lopez Martinez Grammar School and Antonio López.

School
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, also known as Escuela Jacinto Lopez Martinez, in Dorado, Puerto Rico, is a school built in 1923-25 which was designed by architect Pedro Adolfo de Castro.

Disaster remains
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Antonio L. López was a merchant steamship that was built in Scotland in 1882 for the Spanish Compañía Transatlántica Española. A United States Navy auxiliary cruiser sank her in the Spanish–American War when she was trying to run the US blockade to supply materiél to the Spanish garrison on . is situated 4 km northeast of Dorado.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toa Baja.

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is a municipality and town of 75,000 residents in the Toa Valley region of 's metropolitan area in along the island's .

Dorado

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
United Nations Location Code
PR DDP
Open location code
77CMFP5Q+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1944406183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4564133
Wiki­data ID
Q2217567
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Dorado” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دورادو”
  • 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”
  • French: “municipalité de Dorado”
  • Georgian: “დორადო (პუერტო-რიკო)”
  • Georgian: “დორადო”
  • German: “Dorado”
  • Gilaki: “دؤرادؤ (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “دؤرادؤ”
  • Irish: “Dorado”
  • Italian: “Dorado”
  • Japanese: “ドラド (プエルトリコ)”
  • Ladin: “Dorado”
  • Persian: “دورادو، پورتوریکو”
  • Polish: “Dorado”
  • Portuguese: “Dorado”
  • Russian: “Дорадо”
  • Serbian: “Дорадо (Порторико)”
  • Serbian: “Дорадо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dorado, Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Dorado (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Dorado”
  • Spanish: “Municipio Autónomo de Dorado”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Dorado”
  • Ukrainian: “Дорадо”
  • Urdu: “دورادو، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dorado, Puerto Rico”

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