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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 ...
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 ]
The Yagüez River (Spanish: Río Yagüez) is a river located in western Puerto Rico. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Yagüez originates at 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea-level in the Urayoán Mountains to the southeast of Las Marias and to the northeast of Maricao .
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 Gurabo River (Spanish: Río Gurabo) is a river and tributary of the Loíza River in Puerto Rico. In 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced work would be done on the river, [ 2 ] which runs through several municipalities including Gurabo, Juncos , and Las Piedras .