San Germán
San Germán is a city of 32,000 people in the Porta del Sol region of Puerto Rico. It's best known for its Spanish colonial architecture.Photo: Jmoliver, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 9,180 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Nueva Salamanca”, “San German Municipio”, “San Germán Municipio”, “San Germán PR”, “San Germán, PR”, and “San Germán, Puerto Rico”
- Neighbors: Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros, Lajas, Maricao, Mayagüez, and Sabana Grande
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guanajibo River and Colegio San José.
Guanajibo River
River
Photo: Jerjes Medina Albino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Guanajibo River is a river that runs through Hormigueros, Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez, San Germán, and Sabana Grande in Puerto Rico.
Colegio San José
School
The Colegio San José was a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in the city of San Germán, Puerto Rico.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lajas and Lajas Arriba.
Lajas
Photo: ladymiel67, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lajas is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the island's southwestern coast and valley of the same name. It belongs to the Porta del Sol tourism region and it is famous for its beaches, keys, mangrove forests and its bioluminescent bay.
Lajas Arriba
Suburb
Lajas Arriba is a barrio in the municipality of Lajas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,456. Lajas Arriba is situated 6 km southeast of San Germán.
San Germán
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico and locality
- Location: Porta del Sol, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.0809° or 18° 4′ 51″ northLongitude
-67.0409° or 67° 2′ 27″ westPopulation
9,180Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)Abbreviation
“SGE”Open location code
77CJ3XJ5+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 1944626010OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“San Germán” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳን ጀርማን”
- Arabic: “سان خيرمان”
- Azerbaijani: “San Germán”
- Bengali: “সান জার্মান”
- Bishnupriya: “সান জার্মান, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Catalan: “San Germán”
- Cebuano: “San Germán Municipio”
- Chinese: “圣赫尔曼”
- Chinese: “聖赫爾曼”
- Dutch: “San Germán”
- Esperanto: “San Germán”
- Esperanto: “Sankt-Germano”
- French: “municipalité de San Germán”
- French: “San German”
- French: “San Germán”
- Georgian: “სან-ხერმანი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “სან-ხერმანი”
- German: “San German”
- German: “San Germán”
- Gilaki: “سن خرمان (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “سن خرمان”
- Hausa: “San Germán”
- Hebrew: “סאן חרמיאן”
- Irish: “San Germán”
- Italian: “San Germán”
- Japanese: “サン・ジャーマン”
- Japanese: “サン・ヘルマン”
- Japanese: “サンヘルマン (プエルトリコ)”
- Javanese: “San Germán”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Жермен”
- Kirghiz: “Сан-Жермен”
- Korean: “산헤르만”
- Ladin: “San Germán”
- Malay: “San Germán”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Germán”
- Oromo: “San Germán”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਜਰਮਾਨ”
- Persian: “سن ژرمن، پورتوریکو”
- Persian: “سن ژرمن”
- Polish: “San Germán”
- Portuguese: “San German”
- Portuguese: “San Germán”
- Pushto: “سن ژرمن”
- Russian: “Сан-Херман”
- Scots: “San Germán, Puerto Rico”
- Scots: “San Germán”
- Serbian: “Сан Херман (Порторико)”
- Serbian: “Сан Херман”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Germán, Puerto Rico”
- Somali: “San Germán”
- Spanish: “Municipio Autónomo de San Germán”
- Spanish: “Municipio de San Germán”
- Spanish: “San Germán (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “San Germán”
- Swahili: “San Germán”
- Swedish: “San Germán”
- Tajik: “Сан-Жермен”
- Tatar: “San Germán”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Херман”
- Urdu: “سان خیرمان، پورٹو ریکو”
- Uzbek: “San Germán”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Germán, Puerto Rico”
- Welsh: “San Germán”
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