Towns & cities

Arecibo

municipality in Puerto Rico

United States · 18.4706, -66.7208

Arecibo is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 4 productions, in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

1 production was filmed at 3 places inside Arecibo rather than at Arecibo itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

Open on the map → Wikipedia Source data

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Arecibo as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies filmed elsewhere in Arecibo

1 production shot at 3 places inside Arecibo, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Arecibo itself.

Species Arecibo Observatory per Wikipedia 1995

Named here by Arecibo’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Arecibo, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

GoldenEye 1995

“It attracted several Hollywood directors who have filmed there; most recently GoldenEye and Contact.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Arecibo?

5 productions are recorded as filmed in Arecibo, 1 of them at places inside it, including GoldenEye (1995), Contact (1997) and Bad Boys II (2003). 4 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Arecibo?

GoldenEye (1995), covered by 68 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Arecibo?

Arecibo is in the United States. Its coordinates are 18.4706, -66.7208.

What other filming locations are near Arecibo?

Río Grande de Arecibo (1 km east), Cueva Ventana (11 km south), Arecibo Observatory (14 km south), Arecibo Radio Telescope (14 km south) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by UrayoanManuel~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0.