Bayagán River

Bayagán River
Bayagan River running alongside PR-505 in Barrio Machuelo Arriba, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Basin
River system	Río Bucaná
Progression	Barrio Montes Llanos, barrio Machuelo Arriba
Main source	Barrio Montes Llanos 1,650 feet (500 m)(intermittent)[1] 141 feet (43 m) (perennial)[2]
River mouth	Rio Cerrillos, Barrio Machuelo Arriba 42 feet (13 m)[3]
Countries	Puerto Rico
Location	Ponce, Puerto Rico
Physiognomy
Length	9 km (5.6 mi)[4]

Map showing the location of Río Bayagán among the other rivers in the municipality. The area in pink represents the urban zone of the city

Bayagán River (Spanish: Río Bayagán) is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Bayagán is a tributary of Cerrillos River. It has a length of approximately six kilometers and generally runs south. It originates in barrio Montes Llanos and runs south through barrio Machuelo Arriba for about nine kilometers until it meets Río Cerrillos. It is part of the Bucaná River watershed. This river is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality.

Origin

Bayagán River has its origin in Montes Llanos,^[5] in an area about two kilometers northwest of Pico Pinto (English: Pinto Peak). This river extends from the mountains in Montes Llanos and gathers waters from the streams in the vicinity of 18.08908 North and 66.61629 West, in the area of Hacienda Usera.

Course and extension

Bayagán River progresses in a southernly direction through barrio Machuelo Arriba until its mouth at coordinates 18.043575 North and 66.585728 West just west of Urbanizacion Valle Alto in the city of Ponce. At that point it feeds into Cerrillos River, at an altitude of 42 feet. Cerrillos will in turn feed into Río Bucaná further downstream, with the latter emptying into the Caribbean Sea about eight kilometers further downstream.^[6]

Length and type

Bayagán is only six kilometers long. However, the river is mostly an intermittent river, being perennial only about half a kilometer of its final course.^[7]Like several other rivers in southern Puerto Rico, Río Bayagán flows perennially only during the rainy season.^[8]

See also

• List of rivers of Puerto Rico
• List of rivers of Ponce

Coordinates: 18°02′37″N 66°35′09″W / 18.0435751°N 66.5857282°W^[9]

References

1. Maptest. 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.
2. Feature Query Results. US Geological Survey. Feature ID 1612432. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
3. Maptest. 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.
4. Maptest. 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.
6. Hacienda Usera, Monte Llano Barrio, Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
7. Maptest. 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.
8. Los Rios. Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. February 2007: P013. Page 1. Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
9. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Bayagán

External links

• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)