The San Pedro Mezquital River ( es, Río San Pedro Mezquital) is a river of
Nayarit
Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its ...
,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
The river originates in the
Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American ...
, and flows through
Durango and
Nayarit
Nayarit (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 20 municipalities and its ...
states to empty into the Pacific Ocean in
Marismas Nacionales Biosphere Reserve.
[González-Díaz, Alfonso Ángel, Miriam Soria-Barreto, Leonardo Martínez-Cardenas, and Manuel Blanco y Correa (2015) "Fishes in the lower San Pedro Mezquital River, Nayarit, Mexico". ''Check List'' 11(6): 1797, 26 November 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1797 ISSN 1809-127X]
Fish
A few fish species are native to the San Pedro Mezquital River. Among these are the two surviving ''
Characodon'' splitfin species, which are both highly threatened.
The extinct
Durango shiner (''Notropis aulidion'') was native to the Rio Tunal, which forms the headwaters of the San Pedro Mezquital, a Pacific slope river rising near
Durango City
Durango City (, stp, Korian), officially Victoria de Durango is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango. The city, which is located in Northern Mexico has a population of 654,876 as of the 2015 census, and sits at an altitude ...
,
Durango, Mexico (Chernoff and Miller 1986). It was taken there only in 1951 and 1961.
See also
*
List of rivers of Mexico
This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses.
Rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico
* Río Bravo, the name of the Rio Grande in Mexico
** S ...
References
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*The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
Rivers of Mexico
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