List of rivers of Ponce

This list of rivers of Ponce consists of the 14 rivers in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Rivers that either originate in the municipality or that run the bulk of their course through said municipality are listed. Except for two rivers, Rio Portugues and Rio Jacaguas, all other rivers originate and terminate within the boundaries of the municipality of Ponce. This list does not include quebradas (English: brooks). 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] These four river basins are: Rio Matilde, Rio Bucana, Rio Inabon, and Rio Jacaguas.

Rio Pastillo and Rio Canas merge to form Rio Matilde. Rio Blanco, Rio Prieto, Rio San Patricio, Rio Bayagan, Rio Cerrillos, Rio Chiquito, and Rio Portugues all run in one manner or other into Rio Bucana. Rio Anon feeds into Rio Inabon (Rio Guayo also feeds into Rio Inabon, but Rio Guayo is not located in the municipality of Ponce). Rio Jacaguas is actually shared between the municipalities of Ponce and Juana Diaz, as it forms the boundary between the two municipalities. Various rivers feed into Rio Jacaguas, but none of them are located within the municipality of Ponce.

Two rivers, Rio Bucana and Rio Portugues, are partially channelized. These channelization occur in parts of the urban area of the city of Ponce. Additionally, two rivers have been damed: Rio Cerrillos was damed to create the Cerrillos Lake, and the daming of Rio Portugues is expected to create the Portugues Lake[2] when the project is completed in 2013.[3] The daming of Rio Cerrillos occurred north of the point where Rio Bayagan feeds into Rio Cerrillos but south of where Rio San Patricio feeds into Rio Cerrillos.

Contents

River list summary table

No. Name Elevation
at Origin
(feet)		 Elevation
at Mouth
(feet)		 River
Length
(km)		 Watershed Area
(sq mi)
(0= Not Available)		 Discharge
(cu ft/s)
(0= Not Available)		 Approximate Mouth
distance from shore
(km)
1 Río Anón 3,854 1,060 4.0 0 0 12.0
2 Río Bayagán 141 42 9.0 0 0 4.0
3 Río Blanco 2,970 1,381 2.0 0 0 16.0
4 Río Bucaná 115 0 9.16 28.45 0 0
5 Río Canas 930 15 14.0 0 0 1.7
6 Rio Cerrillos 1,200 69 29.8 17.80 24,000 5.0
7 Río Chiquito 1,170 98 9.5 0 0 3.0
8 Río Inabón 4,100 0 32.01 38.18 15,000 0
9 Río Jacaguas 2,099 0 39.72 59.85 37,000 0
10 Río Matilde 15 0 1.7 0 0 0
11 Río Pastillo 435 15 19.0 0 0 1.7
12 Río Portugués 2,853 3 29.66 20.33 16,000 2.0
13 Río Prieto 3,920 1,381 4.0 0 0 14.0
14 Río San Patricio 1,917 660 6.3 0 0 7.0

Listed alphabetically

Listed from west to east

Listed according to the latitude at the mouth of the river:

Listed from south to north

This lists the rivers in order of their longitude, or roughly, where the river's mouth is relative to the Ponce shore:

0 km from shore (mouth at Caribbean Sea)

Up to 1 km from shore

Up to 2 km from shore

Up to 3 km from shore

See also

Puerto Rico portal

References

  1. ^ Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo. Hacia un Estudio Integral de la Toponimia del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ph. D. dissertation. May 1999. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Graduate School. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Page 14.
  2. ^ Plan de Uso de Terrenos de Puerto Rico: Perfil Regional - Region Sur. Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Junta de Planificacion. Oficina del Plan de Uso de Terrenos. Borrador Preliminar. Febrero 2006. Page 6. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  3. ^ A pesar de 400 despidos: Continúan obras en Represa Portugués. Jason Rodríguez Grafal. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 April 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.

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