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San Cristóbal Canyon
San Cristóbal Canyon (Spanish: ''Cañón de San Cristóbal'') is a canyon carved by the Usabón River, located on the town boundary between the municipalities of Barranquitas and Aibonito in the central region of the main island of Puerto Rico. Situated between the mountain subranges of ''Cordillera Central'' and Sierra de Cayey, San Cristóbal measures 9 kilometers (5.5 mi) in length and reaches up to 750 feet (228.6 m) in depth, making it the deepest land canyon in Puerto Rico and the West Indies in the Caribbean. Home to some of the tallest waterfalls and hundreds of species of flora and fauna in the island, the canyon is government-protected as a natural area since 1978, which came after the site was used as a land fill from 1954 to 1974. San Cristóbal and its northerly neighbor of Las Bocas Canyon are part of a larger canyon system belonging to the La Plata River basin in the central mountainous region of Puerto Rico. Geography The San Cristóbal Canyon is mainl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aibonito, Puerto Rico
Aibonito () is a small mountain town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the Sierra de Cayey mountain range, north of Salinas; south of Barranquitas and Comerío; east of Coamo; and west of Cidra, and Cayey. Aibonito is spread over 8 ''barrios'' and Aibonito Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. Aibonito is located at a relatively high elevation (its main square is the highest in the island at above sea level), which makes its climate cooler than most of Puerto Rico's towns. Etymology and nicknames The name ''Aibonito'' is possibly a combination of Spanish and Taíno from ''Hatibon'' or ''Jatibon'', which the native name of the Aibonito River. ''Jatibon'' most likely translates to "black river" or "night river", the indigenous name of the river which was later turned into a diminutive in Spanish (''Jatibon-ito''). It is common to have native place names i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is ''funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora'' for purposes of specificity. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant consequence in protest or support of a cause. In the martyrdom narrative of the remembering community, this refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of an individual by an oppressor. Accordingly, the status of the 'martyr' can be considered a posthumous title as a reward for those who are considered worthy of the concept of martyrdom by the living, regardless of any attempts by the deceased to control how they will be remembered in advance. Insofar, the martyr is a relational figure of a society's boundary work that is produced by collective memory. Originally applied only to those who suffered for their religious b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher (, , ; ) is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman Empire, Roman emperor Decius (), or alternatively under the emperor Maximinus Daia (). Churches and monasteries were named after him by the 7th century. There is no evidence for the historicity of the saint.Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Saint Christopher" Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 July 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Christopher. Accessed 25 October 2024. The most famous legend connected to the saint recounts that after converting to Christianity, he devoted his life to carrying travelers across a river. One day he carried an unknown young boy across a river after which the boy reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the more recent of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the Latin word for the white limestone known as chalk. The chalk of northern France and the white cliffs of south-eastern England date from the Cretaceous Period. Climate During the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than present, although throughout the period a cooling trend is evident. The tropics became restricted to equatorial regions and northern latitudes experienced markedly more seasonal climatic conditions. Geography Due to plate tectonics, the Americas were gradually moving westward, causing the Atlantic Ocean to expand. The Western Interior Seaway divided North America into eastern and western halves; Appalachia and Laramidia. India maintained a northward course towards Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere, Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a Fracture (geology), planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of Rock (geology), rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust (geology), crust result from the action of Plate tectonics, plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as the megathrust faults of subduction, subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes. Faults may also displace slowly, by aseismic creep. A ''fault plane'' is the Plane (geometry), plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A ''fault trace'' or ''fault line'' is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geological maps to represent a fault. A ''fault zone'' is a cluster of parallel faults. However, the term is also used for the zone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cidra, Puerto Rico
Cidra () is a Cidra barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central region of the island, north of Cayey, Puerto Rico, Cayey; south of Comerío, Puerto Rico, Comerío and Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Aguas Buenas; east of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Aibonito and Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, Barranquitas; and west of Caguas, Puerto Rico, Caguas. Cidra is spread over 12 barrios and Cidra barrio-pueblo, Cidra Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cidra is known as ''"El Pueblo de la Eterna Primavera"'' ("Spring (season), Town of the Eternal Spring") and ''"El Pueblo de la Paloma Sabanera"'' ("Plain Pigeon, Town of the Plain Pigeon"). History The region of what is now Cidra belonged to the Taíno people, Taíno region of Cubuy, which covered a portion of the center of Puerto Rico. The region was led by cacique Caguax. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arroyata River
The Arroyata River () is a river of Cidra and Comerío, Puerto Rico. See also * List of rivers of Puerto Rico List of rivers in Puerto Rico ( U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then alphabetically. There are 47 main rivers and 24 lagoons or reservoirs. Most of Puerto Rico's rivers originate in the . There are four slopes through which rainw ... References External links USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – Caribbean Region (1974) Rivers of Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comerío, Puerto Rico
Comerío () is a Comerío barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico in the center-eastern region of island, north of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Aibonito; south of Naranjito, Puerto Rico, Naranjito and Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Bayamón; east of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, Barranquitas; and west of Cidra, Puerto Rico, Cidra and Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Aguas Buenas. Comerío is spread over 7 barrios and Comerío barrio-pueblo, Comerío Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Comerío was founded on June 12, 1826. Originally named Sabana del Palmar, but later changed to ''Comerío''. In 1854, nearly 1000 acres (1000 ) of land were being used for agriculture. In 1894, there was one sugar and two coffee plantations (Hacienda, estates) in Comerío. In the early 20th century, Comerio residents, had a short but legendary territory war with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drainage Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Río De La Plata (Puerto Rico)
The La Plata River () is the longest river in Puerto Rico. It is located in the north coast of the island. It flows from south to north, and drains into the Atlantic Ocean about west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. The mouth of the river is a resort area with white sandy beaches. La Plata has a length of approximately with its origin in the municipality of Guayama, Puerto Rico, at an altitude of approximately above sea level. It crosses the municipalities of Guayama, Puerto Rico, Guayama, Cayey, Puerto Rico, Cayey, Comerío, Puerto Rico, Comerío, Naranjito, Puerto Rico, Naranjito, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Toa Baja, and Dorado, Puerto Rico, Dorado forming two lakes in its path: Carite Lake and La Plata Lake. There are many crossings of the river. The Arenas Bridge, in Cayey, is one of the most notable. It is a steel bridge built in 1894 and is still in use. It was the longest bridge built in Puerto Rico by the Spanish. Another notable bridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Bocas Canyon
Las Bocas Canyon (Spanish: ''Cañón Las Bocas'') is a steep gorge carved by the Frío River, located on the town boundary between the municipalities of Barranquitas and Comerío in the central region of the main island of Puerto Rico. Situated between the eponymous main subrange of ''Cordillera Central'' and the Sierra de Cayey subrange, it is notable for its untouched forests and the large population of kapok (''Ceiba pentandra''). Las Bocas, along with San Cristóbal Canyon, its larger neighbor to its immediate south, form part of the La Plata River basin. Protection The canyon is protected as Las Bocas Canyon Protected Natural Area and Nature Reserve (''Área Natural Protegida y Reserva Natural Cañón Las Bocas''), a 1,170.98-acre (1,205.68 cuerdas) tract of land created through the Las Bocas Canyon Natural Reserve Committee (''Comité Pro Reserva Natural Cañón Las Bocas'') across the Quebradillas and Quebrada Grande barrios of Barranquitas and the Río Hondo and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
