San Pedro Mezquital River

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]

  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