The San Pedro Mezquital River (Spanish: Río San Pedro Mezquital) is a river of Nayarit, Mexico.[1]
| Río San Pedro Mezquital Río San Pedro | |
|---|---|
  Location of mouth | |
| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Nayarit, Durango |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Pacific Ocean |
• coordinates | 21°56′22″N 105°21′01″W / 21.939417°N 105.350269°W |
| Length | 540 km |
| Basin size | 27,674 km2 |
The river originates in the Sierra Madre Occidental, and flows through Durango and Nayarit states to empty into the Pacific Ocean in Marismas Nacionales Biosphere Reserve.[2]
Fish
editA 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.[3] 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, Mexico (Chernoff and Miller 1986). It was taken there only in 1951 and 1961.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "San Pedro Mezquital". GeoNames. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ 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
- ^ Ceballos, G.; E.D. Pardo; L.M Estévez; H.E. Pérez, eds. (2016). Los peces dulceacuícolas de México en peligro de extinción. Fondo de Cultura Económic. ISBN 978-607-16-4087-1.
- ^ Miller, Robert R.; Williams, James D.; Williams, Jack E. (1989). "Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century" (PDF). Fisheries. 14 (6): 22–38. doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1989)014<0022:EONAFD>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2027.42/141989.
- Atlas of Mexico. 1975.
- The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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