page_title: Dorado, Puerto Rico
section_title: Barrios
hierarchical_section_title: Dorado, Puerto Rico / Geography / Barrios
caption_attribution_description: English: Barrios in the municipality
context_page_description: Dorado is a town and municipality in the northern coast of Puerto Rico, 15 miles west of San Juan and is located in the northern region of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, north of Toa Alta, east of Vega Alta, and west of Toa Baja. Dorado is subdivided into five barrios and Dorado Pueblo. It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  The Dorado Airport was operated from 1942 to 1996. The airport began as a military landing strip, then became a civilian airport in the 1960s with Caribair and Dorado Wings flights operating until 1980 and 1982 respectively. The airport operated as a private landing strip throughout the 1980s and then fell into disrepair. In 1996, the airport was rezoned as residential land and redeveloped.
  Dorado has upscale neighborhoods and a small downtown area with a plaza, as other Puerto Rican municipalities. The town's patron saint is Anthony of Padua, and patron saint celebrations are held at the plaza every year on June 13.
context_section_description: Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Dorado is subdivided into barrios. The municipal buildings, central square and large Catholic church are located in a barrio referred to as "el pueblo".
  Espinosa
  Higuillar
  Maguayo
  Mameyal
  Dorado barrio-pueblo
  Río Lajas
caption: Subdivisions of Dorado.
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