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.
- Type: Town with 5,080 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Lares (Puerto Rico)”, “Lares PR”, “Lares, PR”, “Lares, Puerto Rico”, “municipalité de Lares”, “Municipio Autónomo de Lares”, “Municipio de Lares”, 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″ north
Longitude
-66.8776° or 66° 52′ 39″ west
Population
5,080
Elevation
319 metres (1,047 feet)
Open location code
77CM74VC+WX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Lares” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላሬስ”
- Arabic: “لاريس”
- Azerbaijani: “Lares”
- Bengali: “লারেস”
- 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”
- Georgian: “ლარესი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “ლარესი”
- German: “Lares”
- Gilaki: “لارس (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “لارس”
- Hausa: “Lares”
- Hebrew: “לארס”
- Hindi: “लारेस”
- Indonesian: “Lares”
- Irish: “Lares”
- Italian: “Lares”
- Japanese: “ラレス (プエルトリコ)”
- Japanese: “ラレス”
- Javanese: “Lares”
- Kazakh: “Ларес”
- Kirghiz: “Ларес”
- Ladin: “Lares”
- Malay: “Lares”
- Oromo: “Lares”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਰੇਸ”
- Persian: “لاریس”
- Polish: “Lares”
- Portuguese: “Lares”
- Pushto: “لاریس”
- Russian: “Ларес”
- Serbian: “Lares, Puerto Rico”
- Serbian: “Ларес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lares, Puerto Rico”
- Somali: “Lares”
- South Azerbaijani: “لاریس”
- Spanish: “Lares”
- Swahili: “Lares”
- Swedish: “Lares”
- Tajik: “Ларес”
- Tatar: “Lares”
- Turkish: “Lares”
- Ukrainian: “Ларес”
- Urdu: “لاریس، پورٹو ریکو”
- Urdu: “لاریس، پویرٹو ریکو”
- Uzbek: “Lares”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lares, Puerto Rico”
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