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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Fortín Conde de Mirasol
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Caracas Beach, also known as Red Beach in English, is a beach on the southern coast of Vieques in the barrio of Puerto Ferro.Vieques
- Type: island with 9,300 residents
- Description: island-municipality in Puerto Rico
- Category: municipality of Puerto Rico
- Location: Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.1291° or 18° 7' 45" northLongitude
-65.4371° or 65° 26' 14" westPopulation
9,300Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)Abbreviation
VIEIATA airport code
VQSOpen Location Code
77CP4HH7+M5GeoNames ID
4568924Wikidata ID
Q737624Vieques Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Arabic: فيكويس
- Armenian: Խեցգետնի կղզի
- Armenian: Վիեկես
- Basque: Vieques
- Belarusian: Востраў В'екес
- Belarusian: 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
- English: Vieques, Puerto Rico
- English: Vieques Island
- English: Vieques Municipality
- English: Vieques Municipio
- Esperanto: Vieques
- Estonian: Vieques
- Finnish: Vieques
- French: Vieques
- Georgian: ვიეკესი (პუერტო-რიკო)
- German: Krabbeninsel
- German: Vieques
- German: Vieques Island
- 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 (Puerto Rico)
- Ladin: Vieques
- Lithuanian: Vjekesas
- Norwegian: Vieques
- Norwegian Bokmål: 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 Nena
- Spanish: Isla de Vieques
- Spanish: Municipio de Vieques
- Spanish: Vieques
- Spanish: Vieques (Puerto Rico)
- Spanish: Vieques Municipio
- Swedish: Vieques
- Turkish: Vieques
- Ukrainian: В'єкес
- Urdu: ویئقیس، پورٹو ریکو
- Vietnamese: Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Vietnamese: Vieques
- Waray (Philippines): Vieques, Puerto Rico
- ვიეკესი
Other Places Named Vieques
In the Area
- Jardines de ViequesNeighbourhood
- Puerto FerroSuburb
- Villa BorinquenNeighbourhood
- Isabel II barrio-puebloTown
- FloridaSuburb
- Bravos de BostonNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Vieques. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.