Río Blanco (Ponce, Puerto Rico)

Coordinates: 18°08′38″N 66°36′29″W / 18.1438485°N 66.6079505°W / 18.1438485; -66.6079505[1]
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Río Blanco
Location
CommonwealthPuerto Rico
MunicipalityPonce
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBarrio Anón
 • coordinates18°08′38″N 66°36′29″W / 18.1438485°N 66.6079505°W / 18.1438485; -66.6079505[1]
 • elevation2,970 feet (910 m)[2][note 1]
Río Bucana
Tributaries 
 • leftQuebrada Jamiel
Map showing the location of Río Blanco among the other rivers in the municipality. The area in pink represents the urban zone of the city

Río Blanco (

rivers in the municipality
.

Origin and course

The Río Blanco originates in the mountains of barrio

PR-139
and Camino La Poblada.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Note: There is no agreed definition of a stream's source. Here the two-year-old information from the maps of the Government of Puerto Rico (dated 2009-2010) is used over the 30-year-old (dated 1981) information from the USGS as it is more consistent with 2000-2011 Google images.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Blanco
  2. ^ a b Maptest. Archived 2010-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  3. ^ a b US Geographical Survey.
  4. ^ Maptest. Archived 2010-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  5. ^ Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Recursos Naturales. Ponce Ciudad Señorial. Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ General Purpose Population Data, Census 2000. Unidad de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Área de Tecnología de Información Gubernamental, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Archived 2010-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 26, 2010.
  7. ^ Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro. Archived 2015-08-07 at the Wayback Machine Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  8. ^ Historia de Nuestros Barrios: Barrio Anon, Ponce. Page 5. Accessed 27 May 2011.

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