Dorado sits on Puerto Rico's north coast, west of San Juan, in a stretch of shoreline long associated with resort living and golf. The municipality's name means 'golden' in Spanish, and its modern identity is closely tied to the leisure and residential development that has grown along its coast over the past several decades. The centerpiece of that identity is the Dorado Beach resort district. The Dorado Beach Resort, now operated as a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, occupies a beachfront setting, and the adjacent TPC Dorado Beach golf complex offers championship courses — including the East and Sugarcane courses — with a design heritage reaching back to Robert Trent Jones Sr., who laid out golf here in the 1950s. These amenities, together with beaches and upscale residential communities, anchor a significant tourism and residential economy. Beyond the resort corridor, Dorado has roughly 36,000 residents and retains a traditional Puerto Rican municipality with a town center, local barrios, schools, and everyday commerce. The municipality blends that established community life with the coastal resort and golf landscape that gives it a distinctive character among the island's north-coast towns. Dorado's location west of San Juan places the capital, its employment centers, and the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport within a short drive, while the Atlantic shoreline and resort amenities offer a self-contained coastal lifestyle. It tends to appeal to residents and second-home buyers seeking resort-style living, golf, and beach access close to the island's metropolitan core, and its golf and resort heritage has made it one of Puerto Rico's more recognizable addresses for coastal living.