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Cañas River, also known as Río Cañas (English: Canas River), is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is also known as Río Magueyes in the area where it flows through Barrio Magueyes, also in the municipality of Ponce. [5] This river is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality.
All the rivers in the municipality of Ponce run into one of four river basins that then empty into the Caribbean Sea. [1] These four river basins are: Río Matilde, Río Bucaná, Río Inabón, and Río Jacaguas. Río Pastillo and Río Canas merge to form Río Matilde.
Río Pastillo [note 1] has its origin in the northern mountains of Ponce's Barrio Marueño, [7] in an area called Yagrumo. [8] This river runs for approximately 19 kilometers (12 mi) before reaching barrio Canas in the city of Ponce where it merges with Río Canas to form Matilde River. [9] The Government of Puerto Rico has plans to canalize ...
Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
Cañas River may refer to: Cañas River (Mexico) Cañas River (Bebedero River tributary), in Costa Rica and Nicaragua; Cañas River (Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico) Cañas River (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) Cañas River (Naranjito, Puerto Rico) Cañas River (Ponce, Puerto Rico) Cañas River (Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico) Cañas River (Tempisque River tributary)
This is a category for rivers of Ponce, a city in Puerto Rico. Pages in category "Rivers of Ponce, Puerto Rico" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Canas, has the distinction of being the most populated barrio in the municipality of Ponce. [16] It also has the longest coastline of all barrios in Ponce. In 2010, the population of Canas was 32,708 persons, and it had a density of 2,260.4 persons per square mile. [17] Major roads in barrio Canas are PR-2, PR-132, PR-500, and PR-549. [18]
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 24 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico is along the central mountain region, from Las Marías and Maricao in the central-west to Juncos in the central-east, including the slopes of the Cordillera.