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Map with highways and waterways in Puerto Rico. List of rivers in Puerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then alphabetically. There are 47 main rivers and 24 lagoons or reservoirs. [1] Most of Puerto Rico's rivers originate in the Cordillera Central. There are four slopes through which rainwater flows towards the sea.
This is a list of rivers in Puerto Rico an Insular area of the United States. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, see List of Puerto Rico rivers . Contents
This river winds through Puerto Rico’s volcanic mountains, and is the exclusive water source for DonQ Rum". [12] Today Río Inabón is one of the most popular rivers for swimming in southern Puerto Rico. [13] Some 10 private reservoirs in the Ponce area are fed by the waters of Río Inabón. [14]
The Río Grande de Añasco is a river in western Puerto Rico. Its source is in the Cordillera Central mountain range west of Adjuntas, and it flows about 40 miles (64 km) westward to its mouth on the Mona Passage 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Mayagüez. [1] The river flows through the municipalities of Mayagüez, Añasco, San Sebastián and Las ...
The Bayamón River (Spanish: Río de Bayamón) is a river of Puerto Rico beginning at an elevation of approximately 1,476 ft in barrio Beatriz in Cidra, Puerto Rico. It is slightly over 30 miles long and travels through several municipalities: Cidra, Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo, Toa Baja, Bayamón, and Cataño, then empties into San Juan Bay.
Puerto Rico Highway 139 in Barrio Maraguez, heading South-bound. The Río Portugués canal is visible in the background as it empties into the Caribbean Sea . Once the U.S. Corps of Engineers canalized Río Portugués as it flowed through the city of Ponce, the Corps also diverted its course from a south-southwesterly course to a south ...
The Yauco River (Spanish: Río Yauco) is a river that goes through Guayanilla and Yauco, municipalities in Puerto Rico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Antonio Lucchetti Dam and Reservoir is on the Yauco River.
Only streams recognized as "rivers" by the United States Geological Survey and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources are included here. All the rivers in the municipality of Ponce run into one of four river basins that then empty into the Caribbean Sea. [1]