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Río Blanco (Ponce, Puerto Rico)

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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
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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
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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
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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.
490: 95: 258:. Together with the Río Prieto, the Río Blanco is one of the two rivers in Ponce with their mouth at the highest elevation (both at 1,381 feet). This river is one of the 14 485: 544: 286:(Jamiel Brook). After this it runs for about 0.2 kilometer before it feeds into Río Prieto, some 800 feet southwest of the intersection of 231:
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
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Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
329: 46: 469: 451: 427: 391: 411: 282:, and cuts through the northern mountains of Barrio Anón. It runs for about 1.8 kilometers before it is fed by 374: 334: 279: 259: 307: 247: 51: 321: 239: 494: 473: 455: 431: 395: 195: 533: 201: 271: 254:. It is located in the northeastern area of the municipality. It empties into the 251: 141: 39: 297: 110: 97: 524: 466: 444: 227: 422: 388: 81: 375:
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Blanco
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Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.
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The Río Blanco originates in the mountains of barrio
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Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce.
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Commonwealth
Puerto Rico
Municipality
Ponce
Anón
18°08′38″N 66°36′29″W / 18.1438485°N 66.6079505°W / 18.1438485; -66.6079505
Mouth
Prieto River
River system
Río Bucana

Spanish
Ponce
Puerto Rico
Río Prieto
rivers in the municipality
Anón
PR-143
Toro Negro State Forest
PR-139
Puerto Rico portal
Geography portal
List of rivers of Puerto Rico
List of rivers of Ponce
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Río Blanco


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