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Guaynabo

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

Guaynabo
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    University 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
  2. 02
    Juan 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
  3. 03
    Hiram 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
  4. 04
    José 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
  5. 05
    University 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
  6. 06
    Puerto 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
  7. 07
    Río 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
  8. 08
    Polytechnic 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
  9. 09
    Plaza 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
  10. 10
    Coliseo 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Guaynabo
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Beef Island → Guaynabo
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  • Punta Cana → Guaynabo
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    313 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    393 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,547 km

If you know how people move in Guaynabo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Guaynabo

Guaynabo is 11 km from San Juan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.