Government cemeteries in Puerto Rico include facilities administered by the VA's National Cemetery Administration, state veterans cemeteries funded through state and federal partnerships, and local municipal and county cemeteries operated by city and county governments throughout the state.
Veterans in Puerto Rico may be eligible for burial in a state veterans cemetery at little or no cost. Contact the Puerto Rico Department of Veterans Affairs or Veterans Services to confirm eligibility requirements and available state-operated facilities.
Families and genealogists in Puerto Rico can often request burial records from municipal cemetery offices or search online databases maintained by state archives and historical societies. Many Puerto Rico counties have digitized older cemetery records that are available through county clerk or public library genealogy collections.