Pedernales Lighthouse
Location & Light Range
About Pedernales Lighthouse
Located on the beach at Pedernales, a town bordering Haiti, this lighthouse stands 12 meters tall. It is a square pyramidal skeletal metal tower, with its upper half painted yellow and its lower half black. The light emits a long white flash every 12 seconds from a focal height of 12.5 meters. The lighthouse has a geographic range of 11.2 nautical miles. While the site is open to visitors, the tower itself is closed.
Why it matters: This lighthouse serves as a navigational reference for maritime traffic, particularly smaller vessels, along the Dominican Republic's coast near the Haitian border.
Light & Optic
- Flash Type
- Long Flash
- Light Color
- White
- Interval
- 12s
- Raw Code
- LFl W 12s
- Focal Height
- 12.5m
- Geographic Range
- 11.2NM
Location
- City
- Pedernales
- Country
- 🇩🇴Dominican Republic
- Sea Region
- Located on the beach at Pedernales, a town that adjoins the Haitian border.
- Latitude
- 18.0283°
- Longitude
- -71.7458°
References & Identifiers
- Nearest Port
- Cabo Rojo(7.7 km)
- Admiralty No.
- J5484
- NGA No.
- 14404
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 12m
- Tower Shape
- square
- Tower Color
- yellow and lower half black
- Material
- metal
Structure: square pyramidal skeletal tower,upper half painted yellow and lower half black
Visiting
- Open to public
- Site open, tower closed
Nearby Vessels
اعثر على منارة Pedernales على الخريطة البحرية المباشرة
خطّط رحلاتك قرب Dominican Republic، وشاهد السفن المجاورة في الوقت الفعلي، واستكشف أكثر من 14,900 معلَم ملاحي في التطبيق.