Arecibo River

Arecibo River

Spanish  in full Río Grande De Arecibo,  

      river in west-central Puerto Rico. The Arecibo River rises in the Cordillera Central just east of Mount Guilarte. It flows north-northeast about 40 miles (65 km) through a coffee-growing region and descends across the northern coastal plain to empty into the Atlantic Ocean just east of the port of Arecibo. At the northern edge of the cordilleran foothills, the river is impounded by the Dos Bocas hydroelectric dam and reservoir system (1943), which is linked to the even larger Caonillas hydroelectric dam and reservoir upstream on the Caonillas River, a tributary of the Arecibo.

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