Lajas

Lajas is a town and municipality of located on the island's southwestern coast and valley of the same name. It belongs to the tourism region and it is famous for its beaches, keys, mangrove forests and its bioluminescent bay.
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  • Type: Town with 4,470 residents
  • Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
  • Also known as: “Lajas (Puerto Rico)”, “Lajas PR”, “Lajas, PR”, “Lajas, Puerto Rico”, “municipalité de Lajas”, and “Municipio de Lajas”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Colegio San José.

School
The was a private, co-educational… is situated 4 km north of Lajas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Germán and Lajas Arriba.

Photo: Jmoliver, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city of 32,000 people in the region of .

Suburb
is a barrio in the municipality of Lajas, Puerto Rico. is situated 5 km east of Lajas.

Lajas

Latitude
18.0505° or 18° 3′ 2″ north
Longitude
-67.0597° or 67° 3′ 35″ west
Population
4,470
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PR LJS
Open location code
77CJ3W2R+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1944632616
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4565898
Wiki­data ID
Q1832296
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Lajas” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ላሃስ”
  • Arabic: “لاخاس”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lajas”
  • Bengali: “লাহাস”
  • Bishnupriya: “লাজাস, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Bishnupriya: “লাজাস”
  • Breton: “Lajas”
  • Catalan: “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Catalan: “Lajas”
  • Cebuano: “Lajas Municipio”
  • Cebuano: “Lajas”
  • Chinese: “拉哈斯”
  • Danish: “Lajas”
  • Dutch: “Lajas”
  • Esperanto: “Lajas”
  • French: “Lajas”
  • Galician: “Lajas”
  • Georgian: “ლახასი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
  • Georgian: “ლახასი”
  • German: “Lajas”
  • Gilaki: “لاخاس (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “لاخاس”
  • Hausa: “Lajas”
  • Hindi: “लाजास”
  • Indonesian: “Lajas”
  • Irish: “Lajas”
  • Italian: “Lajas”
  • Japanese: “ラハス”
  • Javanese: “Lajas”
  • Kazakh: “Лахас”
  • Kirghiz: “Лахас”
  • Ladin: “Lajas”
  • Malay: “Lajas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lajas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lajas”
  • Oromo: “Lajas”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਹਾਸ”
  • Persian: “لاخاس، پورتوریکو”
  • Persian: “لاخاس”
  • Polish: “Lajas”
  • Portuguese: “Lajas”
  • Pushto: “لاهاس”
  • Russian: “Лахас”
  • Russian: “Лаяс”
  • Serbian: “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Serbian: “Лахас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Somali: “Lajas”
  • Spanish: “Lajas”
  • Swahili: “Lajas”
  • Swedish: “Lajas”
  • Tajik: “Лахас”
  • Tatar: “Lajas”
  • Turkish: “Lajas”
  • Ukrainian: “Лахас”
  • Urdu: “لاخاس، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Uzbek: “Lajas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lajas, Puerto Rico”

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