Maguayo Roundabout on PR-693: Road Work Near Paseos de Dorado
October 1, 2026
October 1, 2026
If the stretch of PR-693 between Paseos de Dorado and PR-22 has felt like it's been under some kind of work since spring, that's because it has, in three separate pieces. A roundabout project at the town's main entrance started construction in May. A second, unrelated repaving contract covering PR-694, PR-828, and more of PR-693 broke ground in July. And a third element, a brand-new roundabout where PR-693 meets PR-694 in the Maguayo sector, has been under construction by the same contractor building that repaving job.
None of these three are the same project wearing different names. They're three distinct efforts, funded and announced separately, landing on the same short corridor within about ten weeks of each other.
The first roundabout work started Tuesday, May 12, at what Puerto Rico news outlets described as the main entrance to Dorado via Exit 24 off PR-22, the point where drivers leave the highway and land on PR-693 heading into town. That's the roundabout most Paseos de Dorado residents cross every time they leave the neighborhood for anything beyond Higuillar.
The second roundabout is a different intersection entirely: PR-693 where it meets PR-694 in the Maguayo sector, a few minutes further along the same road. Local news identified it by its working name, "la rotonda de Maguayo," and reported that the contractor building it, R.O. Construction, is the same firm the municipality brought in to run the broader repaving contract that started in July. So while the two roundabouts sit on the same road and share a contractor, they're separate builds at separate points on PR-693, which explains why a resident might hit orange cones near Exit 24 in one month and different cones a couple of miles further in the next.
The repaving piece has its own paper trail. Puerto Rico's governor, Jenniffer González Colón, signed a funding agreement with Dorado in June, sending the municipality $645,320 for repaving and infrastructure work on PR-694, PR-828, and sections of PR-693. Mayor Aníbal José Torres, District 11 representative Elinette González, and DTOP Secretary Edwin González were all present for the signing at La Fortaleza.
Work under that agreement began in mid-July. According to reporting on the project, the scope on PR-694 starts in the Maguayo sector at the point locals call "el negocio de Felipe," a landmark reference rather than a mile marker, and continues through multiple segments of PR-693, one of the municipality's main access arteries. The work itself isn't a patch job. Crews are scarifying and removing the old, deteriorated pavement, correcting the road grade, laying new high-resistance asphalt, and upgrading signage and traffic safety devices along the way.
Mayor Torres framed the project as a response to longstanding resident complaints rather than a one-off announcement, saying the administration's priority is to listen to communities and turn commitments into results that protect families and extend the life of their vehicles. Whatever the political framing, the practical effect for anyone driving PR-693 regularly is straightforward: full-depth repaving takes longer than a resurfacing pass, and none of the coverage on these projects has published a completion date.
For Paseos de Dorado residents, this corridor isn't scenery. It's the road to nearly everything outside the gate. The Starbucks on PR-693 at kilometer 8.5 in Barrio Higuillar sits directly on the affected route. So does the corridor leading to Doctors' Center Hospital, Orlando Health's Dorado campus, which residents rely on for anything beyond routine care. Plaza Dorada, the shopping center most residents use for daily errands rather than special trips, sits just off the same PR-693 stretch. And the Exit 24 roundabout is the gateway back onto PR-22 for anyone heading toward San Juan.
A few reference points worth keeping in mind while the work continues:
None of this means the corridor is impassable. It means the pattern of slowdowns has shifted more than once this year as work has moved between the entrance, the Maguayo junction, and the repaving segments in between, which is a reasonable explanation for why the construction has felt less like a single event and more like a moving target.
Three separate crews working three separate contracts on the same three-mile stretch of road in a single year isn't neglect deferred and finally addressed. It's the opposite: a coordinated, multi-agency push, with the governor's office, DTOP, and the municipality all named on the funding side, aimed specifically at the artery that carries Paseos de Dorado traffic to the highway, the hospital, and the plaza. The inconvenience is real while it lasts. So is the fact that a $645,320 state allocation plus two separate roundabout builds represents more attention on this half-mile of Higuillar than it's had in some time.
Anyone driving this route daily has probably already adjusted, favoring one direction over another depending on which section is active that week. Knowing that the entrance roundabout and the Maguayo roundabout are two different builds, not one project with a confusing timeline, at least makes the adjusting easier to plan around.
If you're curious how road and infrastructure investment like this tends to shape the neighborhoods around Dorado's resort communities over time, Mariángel Martí has been tracking this corridor and the rest of Dorado's residential fabric for years and is always glad to talk through what's changing and why.
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