Descalabrado River

The Descalabrado River (Spanish: Río Descalabrado) is a river of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. It also goes through parts of Juana Díaz, and Coamo.^[1][2][3]

Descalabrado River
Native name	Río Descalabrado (Spanish)
Location
Commonwealth	Puerto Rico
Municipality	Coamo, Juana Díaz, Santa Isabel
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Santa Catalina, Coamo
Mouth
• location	Caribbean Sea in Playita Cortada, Descalabrado, Santa Isabel on the municipal border with Juana Díaz

Poecilia sphenops, Guppy, and Awaous banana are some of the fish found in Descalabrado River.^[4]

See also

• List of rivers of Puerto Rico

17.9813543°N 66.4512819°W / 17.9813543; -66.4512819^[5]

References

1. "Rios de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 23, 2008.
2. "Jacksonville District Navigable Waters Lists" (PDF). saj.usace.army.mil. SAJ. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-26. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
3. Luis Santiago-Rivera. Low-Flow Characteristics at Selected Sites on Streams in Southern and Western Puerto Rico Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4147 (1996) (PDF) (Report). U.S. Department of the Interior. p. 20. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
4. Rodríguez-Barreras, Ruber; Zapata-Arroyo, Camille; Falcón L., Wilfredo; Olmeda, María De Lourdes (December 1, 2019). "An island invaded by exotics: a review of freshwater fish in Puerto Rico". Neotropical Biodiversity. 6 (1). Informa UK Limited: 42–59. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1729303. ISSN 2376-6808.
5. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Descalabrado

External links

• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)