Yagüez River Explained

Yagüez River
Source1 Location:Urayoán Mountains
Subdivision Type1:Commonwealth
Subdivision Name1:Puerto Rico
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Length:13miles

The Yagüez River (Spanish; Castilian: Río Yagüez) is a river located in western Puerto Rico.[1] [2] [3]

The Yagüez originates at above sea-level in the Urayoán Mountains to the southeast of Las Marias and to the northeast of Maricao. From its inception the river runs roughly east to west for emptying into Mayagüez Bay just west of downtown Mayagüez next to the northern part of the Parque del Litoral.

During its course, the river traverses the Mayagüez Reservoir located between the Bateyes and Limón barrios of Mayagüez. To protect against flash flooding, the river is canalized throughout the majority of its path through Mayagüez's urban core. The first attempt to canalize the river was when Don Leonardo de Campos was mayor of Mayagüez in 1852, but the difficulties of the project did not allow it back then.[4] The river flooded the city in 1933.[5]

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  1. Web site: Inventario de los ríos más importantes de Puerto Rico . Victor . Suarez . https://web.archive.org/web/20081023123302/http://www.linktopr.com/rios.html . October 23, 2008 . dead . es.
  2. Web site: Jacksonville District Navigable Waters Lists . saj.usace.army.mil . SAJ . 18 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170126184015/http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/Portals/44/docs/regulatory/sourcebook/other_permitting_factors/Jacksonville%20District%20Section%2010%20Waters.pdf . 2017-01-26 . live .
  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) . U.S. Department of the Interior . 29. February 18, 2019.
  4. Preservando un Valor Historico: El Teatro Yagüez, Fiestas Patronales de la Candelaria Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1979
  5. "Genealogias Biografias e Historia del Mayagüez de Ayer y Hoy y Antologia de Puerto Rico"; by Martin Gaudier (Author); Page: 17; Publisher: Imprenta "El Aguila", San German (1959); Language: Spanish