The names of other (generally unpaved) streets in the village include Larraín Alcalde, Ignacio Carrera Pinto, El Sándalo, Vicente González, Teniente Cortés, and La Pólvora.

Overlooking San Juan Bautista are Las Cuevas de los Patriotas (the patriots' caves), where 42 Chilean creole independence activists lived in-exile, as ordered by the Spanish authorities, after the Battle of Rancagua (October 1814).

The number of passengers is limited, so arrangements must be made a month or more in advance; reservations are first-come, first-serve until capacity is reached, with preference going to the locals.

The average flight-time from the mainland is about 2.5 hours, followed by a roughly 90-minute ferry ride to the town proper, located at the opposite end of the island.

San Juan Bautista has a subtropical with mediterranean influence climate (Köppen Cfa),[4] with rainfall intermediate between that of Valparaíso and Concepción.