Yauco
Yauco is a town of 34,000 people on the southwestern Caribbean coast of Puerto Rico. The town is one of the most visited in Puerto Rico's southern coast due to its rich history and architecture, its renowned coffee heritage and its indigenous past.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 13,600 residents
- Description: municipality in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Yauco Municipio”, “Yauco PR”, “Yauco, PR”, and “Yauco, Puerto Rico”
- Neighbors: Adjuntas, Guánica, Guayanilla, Lares, Maricao, and Sabana Grande
Places of Interest
Highlights include Filardi House and Casona Césari.
Filardi House
Historic building
Photo: Ipoellet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Filardi House, also known as Casa Muñoz, is a historic house with ground-level commercial space in Yauco, Puerto Rico. It is notable for the extensive use of concrete sculptural ornamentation on its facade.
Casona Césari
Historic building
Photo: Ipoellet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Antonio Mattei Lluberas Residence, also known as La Casona Césari and the House of the Twelve Doors, is a historic late 19th-century manor house located in Yauco Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Casa Franceschi Antongiorgi
Historic building
Photo: Ipoellet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Casa Franceschi Antongiorgi, located at 25 de Julio St. in Yauco, Puerto Rico, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guayanilla.
Guayanilla
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guayanilla is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located along the Caribbean coast of the island. The town is famous for its secluded beaches, the dry forest and the municipal carnaval.
Yauco
- Categories: municipality of Puerto Rico and locality
- Location: Porta Caribe, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.0353° or 18° 2′ 7″ northLongitude
-66.8487° or 66° 50′ 55″ westPopulation
13,600Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)Abbreviation
“YAU”Open location code
77CM25P2+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1991425167OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Waray—“Yauco” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “য়াউকো, পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
- Catalan: “Yauco”
- Cebuano: “Yauco Municipio”
- Cebuano: “Yauco”
- Chinese: “堯科”
- Dutch: “Yauco”
- Esperanto: “Yauco”
- French: “municipalité d’Yauco”
- French: “Yauco”
- Georgian: “იაუკო (პუერტო-რიკო)”
- Georgian: “იაუკო”
- German: “Yauco”
- Gilaki: “یاۊکؤ (پؤرتؤريکؤ)”
- Gilaki: “یاۊکؤ”
- Irish: “Yauco”
- Italian: “Yauco”
- Japanese: “ヤウコ”
- Ladin: “Yauco”
- Persian: “یاوکو، پورتوریکو”
- Polish: “Yauco”
- Portuguese: “Yauco”
- Russian: “Яуко”
- Serbian: “Yauco, Puerto Rico”
- Serbian: “Јауко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yauco, Puerto Rico”
- Sicilian: “Yauco”
- South Azerbaijani: “یاوکو، پورتو ریکو”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Yauco”
- Spanish: “Yauco (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Yauco”
- Ukrainian: “Яуко”
- Urdu: “یاوکو، پورٹو ریکو”
- Urdu: “یوکو، پورٹو ریکو”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yauco, 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 “Yauco”. Photo: Mtmelendez, CC BY-SA 3.0.