Landmarks & buildings

Arecibo Radio Telescope

Former radio telescope in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico · 18.3442, -66.7528

1 film or series was filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope. Wikipedia names 2 more.

Arecibo Radio Telescope
Photo: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed at Arecibo Radio Telescope

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Wikipedia says these were filmed in Arecibo Radio Telescope too. Each title’s page links to the sentence that says so.

Set here, per Arecibo Radio Telescope’s own Wikipedia article

This page’s own Wikipedia article says these are set here. Nothing was filmed: each is drawn or rendered. Not on the map.

Filming locations nearby

What Wikipedia says about Arecibo Radio Telescope

3 sentences quoted word for word from Wikipedia, each with the production it describes and a link to the article it comes from.

  • GoldenEye 1995

    “It was used as a filming location in the films GoldenEye (1995), Species (1995), and Contact (1997) (based on Carl Sagan's novel of the same name, which also featured the observatory), The Losers (2010), as the climatic battleground against Ultron in Season 3 of Avengers Assemble, and in The X-Files episode "Little Green Men".” Wikipedia
  • Species 1995

    “Other locations included the Santa Monica Pier and the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico.” Wikipedia
  • Battlefield 4 2013

    “One map in the 2013 video game Battlefield 4, while set in China, is based on the distinctive layout of the Arecibo Telescope.” Wikipedia