[3] Coto Laurel is a suburban barrio located in the southeastern section of the municipality, east of the traditional center of the city, Plaza Las Delicias.

The toponymy, or origin of the name, is a proper noun related to the word coto which in Spanish denotes tracts of land ceded to citizens in exchange for services to the king and where there were laurel trees.

[5] In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Coto Laurel is bounded in the north by Cerrillos and Real, in the south by Vayas, in the west by Sabanetas and Cerrillos, and in the east by the municipality of Juana Díaz.

[8] The communities of Palmarejo, Llanos del Sur, and El Monte are found in Coto Laurel.

Coto Laurel's village square was built under the mayoral administration of José G. Tormos Vega in 1980.