Guaynabo
Guaynabo is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico.

Guaynabo is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico. Located west of the capital San Juan, east of Bayamón, south of Cataño and San Juan Bay, and north of Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrios and the downtown area and administrative center of Guaynabo Pueblo. With a land area of 27.13 square miles (70.3 km2) and a population of 89,780 as of the 2020 census, it is part of the San Juan metropolitan area. The studios of WAPA-TV, the most watched television station in Puerto Rico, are located in Guaynabo.
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Worth seeing in and around Guaynabo
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members.
6.6 km · public university system in Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 02Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium
Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium located in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. It is best known as the former home of the Puerto Rico Islanders of the North American Soccer League and current home of the Bayamón FC of the Liga Puerto Rico.
6.1 km · soccer stadium in Bayamón, Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 03Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Hiram Bithorn Stadium, popularly known as the Bithorn, is the largest multi-purpose baseball stadium in Puerto Rico since opening in 1962. Located nearby the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum and in same complex as the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in the Hato Rey business center of San Juan, the capital city and municipality of the archipelago and island, the stadium is named after the first Puerto Rican to play in Major League Baseball, pitcher Hiram Bithorn, who debuted with the Chicago Cubs in 1942.
6.2 km · stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 04José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
The José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum of Puerto Rico is the largest multi-purpose indoor arena in Puerto Rico since opening in 2004. Located in the Milla de Oro financial district of the Hato Rey business center in San Juan, the capital city and municipality of the archipelago and island, the venue is popularly known as the Choliseo, which is a portmanteau of the words coliseo and "Cholito," a reference to Don Cholito, a character created by the eponymous comedian José Miguel Agrelot and his own adopted nickname.
7.9 km · the biggest indoor arena in Puerto Rico dedicated to entertainment · Wikipedia - 05University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus is a public land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puerto Rico system in terms of student population and it was Puerto Rico's first public university campus.
6.6 km · main campus of the University of Puerto Rico system · Wikipedia - 06Puerto Rico Museum of Art
The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico is an art museum in Santurce, a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with 18 exhibition halls. The museum is located in a historic building, formerly occupied by the San Juan Municipal Hospital.
9.8 km · art museum in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 07Río Piedras Mosque
The Río Piedras Mosque, also known as the Puerto Rico Islamic Center, is a mosque in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
6.8 km · Mosque in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 08Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico is a private university based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with additional campuses in Orlando and Miami, Florida, as well as an online virtual campus. Founded in 1966, PUPR offers programs in various fields, including engineering, architecture, technology, and business.
7.8 km · private non-profit technical university in Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 09Plaza Las Américas
Plaza Las Américas is a shopping mall in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, located at the intersection of Routes 18 and 22. "Plaza", as it is known to many Puerto Ricans, was the first indoor shopping mall built in Puerto Rico.
6.7 km · shopping mall in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico · Wikipedia - 10Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez
Coliseo Rubén Rodriguez is a prominent indoor sporting arena located in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Named in honor of Rubén Rodríguez, a legendary former player for the Vaqueros de Bayamón, the coliseum was inaugurated in 1988 and remains one of the largest venues in the San Juan metropolitan area.
6.2 km · multi-purpose arena · Wikipedia
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Getting to Guaynabo
- Airports
- Luis Munoz Marin (SJU), 13 km · Cyril E. King (STT), 119 km · Terrance B. Lettsome (EIS), 165 km
- Stations
- San Juan Bay, 9.1 km
- Charlotte Amalie → GuaynaboTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Beef Island → GuaynaboTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Punta Cana → GuaynaboTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Guaynabo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Guaynabo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA popular method of getting to Cataño from Old San Juan (or vice versa) is the AcuaExpreso Ferry, most famously known as La Lancha de Cataño (the Cataño Ferry).
- Get inThis ferry service has become a "moving landmark" of both Cataño and San Juan, and an icon of Puerto Rico.
- Get inThe Cataño Ferry Terminal (officially called Cataño AcuaExpreso Terminal) is located on Las Nereidas Avenue in downtown Cataño, next to the popular boardwalk.
From Wikivoyage: Cataño, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Guaynabo
Guaynabo is 11 km from San Juan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bayamónmunicipality in Puerto Rico5.6 km
- Trujillo Altomunicipality in Puerto Rico8.7 km
- Catañomunicipality in Puerto Rico8.5 km
- Río Piedrasdistrict in San Juan, Puerto Rico6.4 km
- Cataño barrio-pueblohistorical center and municipality seat of Cataño, Puerto Rico8.7 km
- Guaynabo barrio-pueblohistorical center and municipality seat of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico1.5 km