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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.
Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River. [2] The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km 2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of approximately 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) is navigable during the summer months.
Did you know that some of Puerto Rico’s rivers are crucial in the island’s famous bioluminescent bays? For instance, the Rio Fajardo is a source that feeds into Laguna Grande, a bioluminescent bay in Fajardo.
14 maj 2010 · Using watersheds derived from a hydrologically-corrected 30m resolution DEM as a unit for summary statistics, we provide a series of indicators focused on land-based sources of threat within the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Map of the water resources in Puerto Rico, including all primary river systems and reservoirs. Map modified and reprinted with permission of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and...
The sources of high loads of Cd, Fe, and turbidity in this river system include discharges from oil production activities, speed boats, illegal bunkering, and domestic waste dumps.
The first hydrogeologic map of Puerto Rico including the outlying islands of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona was prepared in 1965 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at a scale of 1:240,000 (Briggs and Ackers, 1965). At that time, available hydrogeologic information depicted on the map included.
