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Portugués River
Portugués River (Spanish: Río Portugués) is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The river is also known as Río Tibes in the area where it flows through barrio Tibes in the municipality of Ponce.〔(Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. ''Recursos Naturales.'' Ponce Ciudad Señorial. ) Retrieved 21 November 2011.〕 Río Portugués has a length of nearly and runs south from the Cordillera Central mountain range into the Caribbean Sea. The Portugués is one of the best-known rivers in Ponce because of its prominent zigzagging through the city and its historical significance.〔Sunny A. Cabrera Salcedo. ''Hacia un Estudio Integral de la Toponimia del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico.'' Ph. D. dissertation. May 1999. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Graduate School. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Page 49.〕 The river is historically significant because the city of Ponce had its origins on its banks. It was originally known as Río Baramaya (Baramaya River).〔(''Ponce, Puerto Rico.'' ) Arecibo Web. Retrieved January 18, 2010.〕 The river has its mouth at . This river is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality. At one point it was also known as Río Ponce.〔Government of the Municipality of Ponce. Periodico "El Señorial". Special issue: Carnaval Ponceño 2013. February 2013. Page 17. Ponce, Puerto Rico.〕
==Origin==
Portugués River has its origin in Cerro Guilarte,〔(''Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce.'' ) Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. Page 187.) Retrieved 23 July 2012.〕 located the western part of barrio Portugués in the bordering municipality of Adjuntas,〔(''Los ríos y embalses de Adjuntas.'' ) Obed David Cintrón González.〕 just north of Ponce, and drains into the Caribbean Sea after running for some .〔(''Río Portugués.'' ) PRFrogui.〕 The river has a discharge of 16,000 feet3/second.〔Ferdinand Quiñones and Karl G. Johnson. ''The Floods of May 17–18, 1985 and October 6–7, 1985 in Puerto Rico.'' U.S. Geological Survey. Open File Report 87-123. Prepared in Conjunction with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources, Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, and the Puerto Rico Highway Authority. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1987. Page 8.〕 The toponomy, or origin of the name, comes from one of its first settlers, Pedro Rodríguez de Guzman, knows as ''el Portugués'' ("the Portuguese") because his ancestry was from Portugal.〔Government of the Municipality of Ponce. Periodico "El Señorial". Special issue: Carnaval Ponceño 2013. February 2013. Page 17. Ponce, Puerto Rico.〕〔Another source names this early settler "Pedro Perdomo de Guzmán". It is not clear which of the two names is the correct name, or if his name was perhaps Pedro Rodriguez Perdomo de Guzmán or some other variation. See (''Historia de Nuestros Barrios: Portugués, Ponce''. ) Rafael Torrech San Inocencio. El Sur a la Vista. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Elsuralavista.com. 14 February 2010.〕
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