Areas within Rio Blanco

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  East Peak

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  Rio Blanco nr Florida

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  Lago Icacos

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  Rio Icacos

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Setting & Research

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Data

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• Setting & Research

  This large instrumented river drains the majority of the south side of the Luquillo Mountains, underline with a granodirite bedrock. Sandy river bed with large boulders. Instrumentation includes multiple gagued streams, lysimeter fields, climate stations, water chemistry sampling as well as other event based and field campaign sampling.

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• Data

  Icacos/Blanco watersheds - Groundwater Chemistry, Groundwater Depth (2014-2016)
  7 components  •   Rio Blanco  •   Hydrology, Water Chemistry  •   McDowell, William H.; Brereton, Rich

  National - Climate, Flux Tower, Streamflow / Discharge - CUAHSI WDC web services (1968-2015)
  7 components  •   Boulder Creek Watershed, Christina River Basin, Jemez River Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, El Verde Field Station, Northeastern Puerto Rico and the Luquillo Mountains, Rio Blanco, Rio Mameyes, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, Providence Creek Headwater Catchments (1660 - 2115 m elevation), Wolverton Basin (2230 - 2700 m elevation), Other instrumented sites  •   Climatology / Meteorology, Hydrology, Soil Science / Pedology  •   Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory; Catalina-Jemez Critical Zone Observatory; Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory; Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory; Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory; Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory

  National - Stream Water Chemistry - Cations, Anions, Metals (1982-2015)
  1 components  •   Bisley, Betasso, East Peak, Marshall Gulch (High-Elevation), Providence Creek Subcatchment P301, Providence Creek Subcatchment P303, Providence Creek Subcatchment P304, Eel River Watershed, Puente Roto, Rio Blanco, Rio Icacos, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory  •   Biogeochemistry, Biology / Ecology, Hydrology, Water Chemistry  •   Hyojin, Kim; Bishop, Jim; Dietrich, William; Fung, Inez; McDowell, William H.; Brantley, Susan L.; Hoagland, Beth; Sullivan, Pamela L.; Cain, Molly; Neal, Andrew; Fisher, Jessica; Russo, Tess; Niwot Ridge LTER; Liu, Fengjing; Chorover, Jon; Troch, Peter; McIntosh, Jennifer; Brooks, Paul; Abramson, Nate; Heidbuechel, Ingo; Amistadi, Mary Key; Alexander Pedron, Shawn; Chorover, Jon; Troch, Peter; Corley, Timothy; Zapata-Rios, Xavier; Losleben, Mark; Condon, Katherine

• Partner Organizations

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    USGS Caribbean

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    IITF

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    Penn

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Topography

Human Impacts

• Topography

  0 - 1043 m elevation (268 m mean)

  The headwaters of granodioritic Río Blanco are unusually flat before cascading
  steeply down the side of the batholith and leveling out along the alluvial coastal plain. The inflection point where the stream sharply steepens occurs at the edge of
  a non-glacial hanging valley.

• Human Impacts

  • forest land
  • urban or built-up land

  Headwaters are within El Yunque National Forest, while the coastal plain has urban areas and major roads.