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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 Municipio”, “Lajas PR”, “Lajas, PR”, and “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porta Coeli and Colegio San José.

Museum
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, "Latin for "Heaven Gate", is the name given today to the former Church and Convent of Santo Domingo de , particularly to its remaining church building, which today is the sole surviving structure of the convent and host of the Religious Art Museum of . is situated 4 km northeast of Lajas.

School
The was a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in the city of . is situated 4 km north of Lajas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Germán and Lajas Arriba.

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is a city of 32,000 people in the region of . It's best known for its Spanish colonial architecture.

Suburb
is a barrio in the municipality of Lajas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,456. 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)
United Nations Location Code
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 Bishnupriya to Waray—“Lajas” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • French: “municipalité de Lajas”
  • Georgian: “ლახასი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
  • Georgian: “ლახასი”
  • German: “Lajas”
  • Gilaki: “لاخاس (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “لاخاس”
  • Irish: “Lajas”
  • Italian: “Lajas”
  • Japanese: “ラハス”
  • Ladin: “Lajas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lajas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lajas”
  • Persian: “لاخاس، پورتوریکو”
  • Polish: “Lajas”
  • Portuguese: “Lajas”
  • Russian: “Лаяс”
  • Serbian: “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Serbian: “Лахас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lajas, Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Lajas (Puerto Rico)”
  • Spanish: “Lajas”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Lajas”
  • Ukrainian: “Лахас”
  • Urdu: “لاخاس، پورٹو ریکو”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lajas, 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 “Lajas”. Photo: ladymiel67, CC BY-SA 3.0.