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 | |
|---|---|
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| 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
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edit- ^ "Rios de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 23, 2008.
- ^ "Jacksonville District Navigable Waters Lists" (PDF). saj.usace.army.mil. SAJ. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-26. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Descalabrado
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