Río San Pedro Mezquital
Río San Pedro
San Pedro Mezquital River is located in Mexico
San Pedro Mezquital River
Location of mouth
Location
CountryMexico
StateNayarit, Durango
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • location
Pacific Ocean
 • coordinates
21°56′22″N 105°21′01″W / 21.939417°N 105.350269°W / 21.939417; -105.350269
Length540 km
Basin size27,674 km2

The San Pedro Mezquital River (Spanish: Río San Pedro Mezquital) is a river of Nayarit, Mexico.[1]

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

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.[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

References

  1. ↑ "San Pedro Mezquital". GeoNames. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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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