The Coamo River () is a river in southern
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
. It runs for approximately 24 miles or 38 kilometers through the municipalities of
Coamo and
Santa Isabel, where it empties into the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...
at Coamo Bay in
Boca Velázquez
Boca Velázquez is a barrio in the municipality of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,705.
History
Boca Velázquez was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War ...
. Its source lies in the
Cordillera Central Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands.
Cordillera Central, meaning ''central range'' in Spanish, may refer to the following mountain ranges:
* Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America
** ...
, on the
Pulguillas ward (''
barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, comm ...
'').
The Coamo River and its coastal wetlands host
great egrets and other wildlife throughout the year. The river was dredged and cleaned after damages and flooding caused by
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths. It is the ...
in 2017. It also contains irrigation dams, such as the Coamo Reservoir Dam in Santa Isabel.
See also
*
Padre Íñigo Bridge: Crosses the river in Coamo, Puerto Rico
*
Las Tres Haciendas Waterworks: irrigation project from the river
*
List of rivers of 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.
Most of Puerto Rico's rivers originate in the . There are four slopes through which rainw ...
References
External links
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)
Rivers of Puerto Rico
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