Lares
Lares is a municipality and town of Puerto Rico located in the western mountainous Cordillera Central region of the island. The town is most popularly known for the Grito de Lares, a failed 1868 uprising against the Spanish colonial rule which has become a landmark of Puerto Rico's history.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,080 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Lares Municipio”, “Lares PR”, “Lares, PR”, “Lares, Puerto Rico”, and “Santuario de la Patna”
- Neighbors: Adjuntas, Camuy, Hatillo, Las Marías, Maricao, San Sebastián, Utuado, and Yauco
Lares
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico and locality
- Location: La Montaña, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.2949° or 18° 17′ 42″ northLongitude
-66.8776° or 66° 52′ 39″ westPopulation
5,080Elevation
319 metres (1,047 feet)Open location code
77CM74VC+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1946461942OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4565908Wikidata ID
Q1026894
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Waray—“Lares” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “লারেস, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Bishnupriya: “লারেস”
- Bulgarian: “Ларес”
- Catalan: “Lares”
- Cebuano: “Lares Municipio”
- Cebuano: “Lares”
- Chinese: “拉雷斯”
- Czech: “Lares”
- Danish: “Lares”
- Dutch: “Lares”
- Esperanto: “Lares”
- French: “Lares”
- French: “municipalité de Lares”
- Georgian: “ლარესი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “ლარესი”
- German: “Lares”
- Gilaki: “لارس (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “لارس”
- Hebrew: “לארס”
- Irish: “Lares”
- Italian: “Lares”
- Japanese: “ラレス (プエルトリコ)”
- Ladin: “Lares”
- Persian: “لاریس”
- Polish: “Lares”
- Portuguese: “Lares”
- Russian: “Ларес”
- Serbian: “Lares, Puerto Rico”
- Serbian: “Ларес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lares, Puerto Rico”
- South Azerbaijani: “لاریس”
- Spanish: “Lares (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Lares”
- Spanish: “Municipio Autónomo de Lares”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Lares”
- Swedish: “Lares”
- Ukrainian: “Ларес”
- Urdu: “لاریس، پورٹو ریکو”
- Urdu: “لاریس، پویرٹو ریکو”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lares, 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 “Lares”. Photo: Yarfpr, CC BY-SA 4.0.