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Topographic map of Puerto Rico showing the Cordillera Central and its two major subranges. The Puerto Rico Central Mountain Range or Cordillera Central is considered the largest of the three geographical and physiographic provinces of the island, along with the Karst regions and the coastal plains. [2]
The Sierra de Cayey (English: "Cayey Mountains") is one of three subranges of the Cordillera Central mountain range in the main island of Puerto Rico.It is demarcated from the eponymous main subrange of Cordillera Central by the San Cristóbal Canyon on the town boundary between the municipalities of Barranquitas and Aibonito.
This is a list of massifs and mountain ranges in Puerto Rico listed alphabetically, and associated landforms. [1] Cerros de San Francisco (San Francisco Hills) Cerros de Santini (Santini Hills) Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico Central mountain range) Cordillera Jaicoa; Cordillera de Sabana Alta; El Carso Norteño (Puerto Rico Northern karst region)
Topographic map of Puerto Rico, 1952. Puerto Rico is mostly mountainous with large coastal areas in the north and south. The main mountain range is called Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range). The highest elevation in Puerto Rico, Cerro de Punta at 4,393 feet (1,339 m), [24] is located in this range.
The Sierra de Luquillo (English: "Luquillo Mountains") is a steep-sided, high-precipitation, and deeply-forested subrange of the Cordillera Central mountain range in the main island of Puerto Rico. Separated from the southeastern Sierra de Cayey subrange by the Caguas Valley , it is concentrated from west to east in the municipalities of Rio ...
The Caguas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Caguas), or the Caguas-Juncos Valley, [1] and popularly referred to as the Turabo Valley (Valle del Turabo), is a large valley lying between two mountain subranges of the Cordillera Central, Sierra de Cayey and Sierra de Luquillo, in the eastern region of the main island of Puerto Rico. [2]
Porta Cordillera (Spanish for "dorway to the mountain range"), or simply Central Region (Región Central), [1] is a land-locked tourism region located in the central mountainous area of Puerto Rico. Porta Cordillera was officially launched in July 2012 by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.
Map of Puerto Rico from 1952 ... The mountains of the Cordillera Central create a rain ... almost 9.6%—or about $1.5 billion—of Puerto Rico's central government ...