Rio Camuy
The Camuy River ( es, Río Camuy; pron. ka-MOO-ee) is a river in Puerto Rico. It is the third largest underground river in the world and helped shape the cave system known as the Rio Camuy Caves. The river and water flow systems of Río Camuy have been studied by the US Geological Service in 1995. Gallery Rio Camuy en todo su esplendor - Camuy, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg, with pedestrian bridge See also *List of rivers of Puerto Rico References External links USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974)
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Parque Nacional De Las Cavernas Del Río Camuy
The Parque Nacional de las Cavernas del Río Camuy (English: Camuy River Cave National Park) is a cave system in Puerto Rico. It is located between the municipalities of Camuy, Puerto Rico, Camuy, Hatillo, Puerto Rico, Hatillo, and Lares, Puerto Rico, Lares in northwestern Puerto Rico, but the main entrance to the park is located in Quebrada, Camuy. The caverns are part of a large network of natural limestone caves and underground waterways carved out by the third-largest underground river in the world, the Río Camuy (Camuy River). The cave system was "discovered" in 1958 and was first documented in the 1973 book ''Discovery at the Río Camuy'' () by Russell and Jeanne Gurnee, but there is archaeological evidence that these caves were explored hundreds of years ago by the Taíno people, Taíno Indians, Puerto Rico's first inhabitants. Over 10 miles of caverns, 220 caves and 17 entrances to the Camuy cave system have been mapped so far. This, however, is only a fraction of the en ...
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