Vieques
Vieques is a Caribbean island belonging to Puerto Rico, also known as Isla Nena or Little Girl Island. It is a relatively small, rural island about 8 miles east of Puerto Rico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 8,250 residents
- Description: island-municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Crab Island”, “Crab Island (Puerto Rico)”, “Vieques Island”, “Vieques Municipality”, “Vieques Municipio”, “Vieques PR”, “Vieques, PR”, and “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortín Conde de Mirasol and Punta Mulas Light.
Fortín Conde de Mirasol
Castle
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El Fortín Conde de Mirasol, also known as Fuerte de Vieques, is a fort built in 1845 located in the town of Isabel Segunda in Vieques, an island municipality of Puerto Rico.
Punta Mulas Light
Punta Mulas Light, also known as Faro de Vieques, is a historic lighthouse located in the north shore of Vieques, an island-municipality of Puerto Rico.
Caracas Beach
Beach
Caracas Beach, also known as Red Beach in English, is a beach on the southern coast of Vieques in the barrio of Puerto Ferro. The beach is famous for its white sand, its clear blue waters, tidal pools and shallow cove perfect for snorkeling.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Esperanza.
Esperanza
Suburb
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Esperanza is a comunidad in Puerto Real Barrio, on the south side of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. It was the location of Hacienda Casa del Frances, a historic site listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Vieques
- Category: municipality of Puerto Rico
- Location: Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Vieques” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيكيس”
- Armenian: “Խեցգետնի կղզի”
- Armenian: “Վիեկես”
- Basque: “Vieques”
- Belarusian: “В’екес”
- Belarusian: “Востраў В’екес”
- Bishnupriya: “ভিয়েকুয়েস, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Catalan: “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
- Catalan: “Vieques”
- Cebuano: “Vieques Municipality”
- Chinese: “別克斯島”
- Chinese: “别克斯岛”
- Czech: “Vieques”
- Danish: “Vieques”
- Dutch: “Krabbeneiland”
- Dutch: “Vieques”
- Esperanto: “Vieques”
- Estonian: “Vieques”
- Finnish: “Vieques”
- French: “Vieques”
- Georgian: “ვიეკესი (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “ვიეკესი”
- German: “Krabbeninsel”
- German: “Vieques Island”
- German: “Vieques”
- Gilaki: “بيئکس (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “بيئکس”
- Greek: “Βιέκες”
- Hebrew: “וייקס”
- Indonesian: “Vieques, Puerto Riko”
- Irish: “Vieques”
- Italian: “Vieques”
- Japanese: “ビエケス島”
- Kazakh: “Вьекес”
- Korean: “비에케스”
- Korean: “비에케스섬”
- Ladin: “Vieques”
- Latvian: “Vjekesa”
- Lithuanian: “Vjekesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vieques”
- Norwegian: “Vieques”
- Papiamento: “Vieques”
- Persian: “ویک، پورتوریکو”
- Persian: “ویکس، پورتوریکو”
- Polish: “Vieques”
- Portuguese: “Vieques”
- Russian: “Вьекес”
- Scots: “Vieques”
- Serbian: “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
- Serbian: “Вијекес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vieques”
- Sicilian: “Vieques”
- Slovak: “Viekes”
- Slovak: “Vieques”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویکوز، پورتو ریکو”
- Spanish: “Isla de Vieques”
- Spanish: “Isla Nena”
- Spanish: “Isla Vieques”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Vieques”
- Spanish: “Vieques (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Vieques Municipio”
- Spanish: “Vieques”
- Swedish: “Vieques”
- Thai: “บิเอเกส”
- Turkish: “Vieques”
- Ukrainian: “В’єкес”
- Urdu: “ویئقیس، پورٹو ریکو”
- Vietnamese: “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
- Vietnamese: “Vieques”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vieques, Puerto Rico”
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