The Lares Municipal Cemetery has been closed since Hurricane Maria caused a landslide that damaged nearly 1,800 tombs at the cemetery's far end. Visits and new burials have been prohibited ever since.

Nereida Maldonado, 74, and Sotero Viera, 80, hold a portrait of their daughter Madeline, who died 25 years ago. She was buried at the Lares Municipal Cemetery until January.

Friends and relatives of the dead leave flowers at the gates because they cannot enter the cemetery.

Gary Nuñez (center) sings as family and friends pay their respects at Irizarry's wake.

Irizarry had left Lares when she was around 15 and spent most of her life working in factories in New Jersey. But she always dreamed of returning to the mountain town.

Religious objects found in a tombstone maker's workshop near the Lares Municipal Cemetery.