Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Puerto Rico
Detourmap lists 32 places in Puerto Rico, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Vieques. 29 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 32
- Oldest
- Caparra 1508
- Little known
- 29 of 32
- Share of United States
- 1%
Puerto Rico 32
All 32, best known first.
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6.Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Indigenous historic site in Ponce municipality, Puerto Rico
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7.Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Indigenous historic site in Utuado, Puerto Rico
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8.Caparra
Archaeological · 16th century · Hidden gem
Former settlement in Guaynabo municipality, Puerto Rico
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9.Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Unit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
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11.Culebra National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · Hidden gem
Unit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Culebra, Puerto Rico
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13.Casa Cautiño
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Guayama, Puerto Rico
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17.Armstrong-Poventud Residence
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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18.Antonio López
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic Spanish ship shipwrecked in Dorado, Puerto Rico
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25.Dr. Concha Meléndez Ramírez House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic house museum and library in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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26.Palacete Los Moreau
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
House museum located in Moca, Puerto Rico
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30.Old Spanish military hospital in Ponce
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic former hospital in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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31.Hermitage of San Antonio de Padua de la Tuna
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic church ruins in Isabela, Puerto Rico
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32.Yauco Battle Site
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Site of the Battle of Yauco in Guánica, Puerto Rico
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Puerto Rico?
Vieques, 19th century. Island-municipality in Puerto Rico. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Puerto Rico?
32: 17 nature & landscapes and 15 archaeological & historic sites. 29 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Puerto Rico?
Caparra, dated to 1508. 9 of the 32 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Puerto Rico here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Puerto Rico if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Puerto Rico is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.