Río Verde (

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for "green river") is a river in central Mexico. It is a tributary of the

Río Grande de Santiago The Río Grande de Santiago, or Santiago River, is a river in western Mexico. It flows westwards from Lake Chapala via Ocotlán through the states of Jalisco and Nayarit to empty into the Pacific Ocean. It one of the longest rivers in Mexico, ...

. Its basin is mostly in the state of

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, and extends into portions of

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Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

, and San Luis Potosí.

Proposed dams

Two dams are proposed on the Río Verde. El Purgatorio reservoir is proposed on the lower river, near its confluence with the Rio Grande de Santiago. It is intended to supply drinking water to the

Guadalajara Metropolitan Area The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in es, Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City and Monterrey. It in ...

. Construction of the dam began in 2011. The Jalisco communities of Temacapulín, Palmarejo, and Acasico, which would be permanently flooded by the reservoir, have opposed the project, and succeeded in delaying its completion with lawsuits. As of August 2021 the dam is not completed and work had not resumed. The El Zapotillo dam site is further upstream on the Río Verde. It is intended to produce water for Guadalajara and for León, which lies immediately southeast of the Río Verde basin. Work on El Zapotillo dam was also suspended, and as of August 2021 had not resumed.

References

*Atlas of Mexico, 1975 (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_mexico/river_basins.jpg). *The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984. *Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. Rivers of Jalisco Río Grande de Santiago Rivers of the Sierra Madre Occidental {{Mexico-river-stub

Proposed dams

See also

References