Río Pastillo

Río Pastillo

Rio Pastillo near PR-501, km 4.6, in Barrio Marueño, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Origin Barrio Guaraguao, Ponce
Mouth Rio Matilde
Progression Marueño
Quebrada Limón
Canas
Canas Urbano
Basin countries Puerto Rico
Location Ponce
Length 19 kilometers (12 mi)[1]
Source elevation 435 feet (133 m)[2]
Mouth elevation 15 feet (4.6 m)[3]
River system Rio Matilde[4]
Left tributaries Quebrada Limon
Quebrada del Agua

Río Pastillo is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is also known as "Rio Marueño". Together with Rio Canas, Rio Pastillo forms Rio Matilde. Rio Pastillo is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality.

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Origin

Rio Pastillo[note 1] has its origin in the northern mountains of Ponce's Barrio Marueño.[5] 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 Río Matilde.[6] The Government of Puerto Rico has plans to channalize this river.[7]

Feeder streams

The Quebrada Limón and Quebrada del Agua are two of the main feeder streams to Río Pastillo.[8] Quebrada del Agua was diverted via channelization to drain directly to the Caribbean Sea.[9] In times of heavy rainfall, Quebrada del Agua was prone to overflow, as it happened on 7 October 1985, when 16 people lost their lives due to its flooding.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Rio Pastillo has sometimes been erroneously called Rio Matilde.

References

  1. ^ Estudios Sociales: Hidrografia of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Projecto Salon Hogar. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  2. ^ Maptest. Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  3. ^ Maptest. Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  4. ^ Los Rios. Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. February 2007: P013. Page 3. Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  5. ^ La Historia de Nuestros Barrios: Barrio Marueño, Ponce. El Sur a la Vista. 21 June 2010.
  6. ^ Estudios Sociales: Hidrografia of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Projecto Salon Hogar. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  7. ^ Ponce en Marcha: Obras que si se ven. Government of Puerto Rico. El Sur a la Vista. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2 November 2011. Page 56.
  8. ^ Estudios Sociales: Hidrografia of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Projecto Salon Hogar. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  9. ^ 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.)
  10. ^ Ferdinand Quiñones and Karl G. Johnson. The Floods of May 17-18, 1985 and October 6-7, 1985 in Puerto Rico. U.S. Geological Survey. Open File Report 87-123. Prepared in Conjunction with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources, Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, and the Puerto Rico Highway Authority. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1987. Page 11.

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