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Puerto Rico Day 6: Guayama and Húcares

30 December 2021 • 224 km / 139 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 8 January 2022
  • Puerto Rico 9

We are staying again in Salinas. What to do with the day in between? Do we go east or do we go west? A coin toss decided it and we explored the coast to the east of us.

Our first stop along the way was the cultural center of Guayama. We visited the main square and enjoyed some of the classical architecture nearby.

A two-story Caribbean colonial corner building in Guayama, Puerto Rico, with a white upper floor featuring a wraparound wooden balcony, turned columns, arched louvered shutters, and decorative fan grilles, above a ground floor painted orange with white trim and dark bases. An orange traffic cone, a wooden chair, and a white pickup truck sit on the sunlit street corner beneath a deep blue sky.
Guayama, Puerto Rico
A tan-colored historic school building topped with a white cross and a pediment reading “Colegio San Antonio 1933,” featuring arched windows with white louvered shutters, set against a deep blue sky with wispy clouds. A green tree and a street lamp stand in front of the facade, with several pigeons perched on the ledges.
Plaza Pública de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico
A cream and white colonial-style Catholic church with a bell tower, arched windows, a rose window, and beige domes topped with crosses, set against a deep blue sky with wispy clouds. An ornate black street lamp and green trees frame the foreground.
Iglesia Parroquial de San Antonio de Padua de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico
The weathered facade of an abandoned wooden building with peeling white paint, featuring tall louvered shutter doors and a decaying roofline with trees growing behind it, fronted by a tiled sidewalk under a partly cloudy sky.
Guayama, Puerto Rico
A deep-set arched window recessed into a smooth beige stucco wall, its splayed white plaster reveal catching light, with a dark blue stained-glass or patterned glass pane behind protective mesh visible in the shadowed opening.
Iglesia Parroquial de San Antonio de Padua de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico
An ornate stone fountain with cherub statues around its central pillar and water arcing into a bright turquoise pool, set in a sunny town plaza with large shade trees, green benches, and festive holiday figure decorations under a clear blue sky.
Plaza Pública de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico

Sadly, the Casa Museo Historia y Arte de Guayama was closed at the time we visited, but we captured a few photos of its intricate decór from the outside:

A grand pale-yellow and white colonial mansion with an ornate wraparound veranda featuring intricate white lattice ironwork, arched openings, and decorative columns, set against a deep blue sky. A church with a cross and pointed gable stands to the left, with an empty street and parking area in the foreground.
Casa y Museo Cautiño, Guayama, Puerto Rico
Ornate white architectural details on the exterior of a colonial-era building, featuring elaborate plaster relief scrollwork and foliage above rounded arches with fan-shaped ironwork, slender columns, and decorative wrought-iron window grilles set against pale yellow walls. A cast-iron column casts an ornate shadow onto the facade in bright midday sun.
Casa y Museo Cautiño, Guayama, Puerto Rico
An ornate white wrought-iron grille with scrolling patterns fronts a sunlit marble-tiled gallery, its intricate shadow cast across marble steps and a pale yellow wall. Beyond the ironwork, a long columned corridor stretches into the distance under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Casa y Museo Cautiño, Guayama, Puerto Rico
A lavender-purple stucco building facade with a tall arched doorway covered by a decorative black wrought-iron security gate featuring a large circular design. A small carriage-style lamp is mounted on the wall to the right, and dappled sunlight filters through a tree in the foreground whose trunk rises across the left side of the frame.
Guayama, Puerto Rico
A weathered abandoned building in Guayama, Puerto Rico, with a tan stucco facade and white-framed doorway. The large boarded-up entrance, made of rusted metal bars and old wooden planks, is heavily overgrown with lush green vines, while a string of café lights hangs overhead.
Guayama, Puerto Rico
A weathered building facade in Guayama, Puerto Rico, with peeling turquoise and beige plaster revealing brick beneath, framing an arched wooden doorway secured behind metal bars. A concrete sidewalk with a yellow-painted curb runs in front.
Guayama, Puerto Rico

After Guayama, we drove a couple hours farther up the coast and found the coastal village of Húcares.

A tropical beach curves along calm turquoise water with rocky outcroppings and remnants of weathered pilings in the shallows, backed by a green vegetated bluff and distant mountains under a cloudy sky. A rounded, salmon-colored concrete wall on the right bears a large black-and-white mural of a spiny lionfish, and a figure with a green backpack stands near the top of the hill.
Húcares, Puerto Rico

Along the coast we found the ruins of what must have been an elegant mansion in its time. It’s now a canvas for many graffiti artists.

Húcares, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
A weathered, abandoned seaside building with crumbling classical columns and a broken balustrade opening onto a calm turquoise sea beneath a cloudy sky. Two dark birds perch on the ruined railing, graffiti covers the walls on the right, and chunks of debris rest on the tiled mosaic floor.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
The graffiti-covered interior of an abandoned concrete building, its crumbling walls framing large open doorways that look out over a turquoise sea beneath a partly cloudy sky. A weathered balustrade lines the seaward edge, and a discarded concrete block sits on the debris-strewn tiled floor.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
Húcares, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
I have questions. Húcares, Puerto Rico
The weathered interior of an abandoned concrete building framing a doorway that opens directly onto turquoise ocean water and a hazy horizon under a pale cloudy sky. The crumbling walls bear graffiti, carved initials with a heart, and peeling plaster, while debris and a stone block litter the tiled floor.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
Húcares, Puerto Rico
Húcares, Puerto Rico
Húcares, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
A large two-story pink Victorian house with white trim, an octagonal turret topped by a conical roof and finial, and a wraparound balcony with white balustrades supported by columns. A curved staircase leads to the entrance, with green lawn, garden shrubs, and a paved path in the foreground under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
A weathered pink two-story house raised on columns, with a balcony and white double doors underneath, set amid lush green trees and palms in Húcares, Puerto Rico. In the foreground are manicured shrubs blooming with red, orange, and yellow flowers on a green lawn under a bright blue sky with big white clouds.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
A calm coastal bay at Húcares, Puerto Rico, with colorful houses and lush green trees dotting a hillside on the left. A blue waterfront building bearing a Heineken sign sits at the water’s edge under a wide sky filled with puffy white clouds.
Húcares, Puerto Rico
Húcares, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn

Salinas, Puerto Rico, to Guayama and Húcares and back · 224 km / 139 mi
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