| 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 / 21.939417; -105.350269 |
| Length | 540 km |
| Basin size | 27,674 km |
The San Pedro Mezquital River (Spanish: Río San Pedro Mezquital) is a river of Nayarit, Mexico.
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.
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, Mexico (Chernoff and Miller 1986). It was taken there only in 1951 and 1961.
See also
References
- "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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