Cocal River

The Cocal River is a river of Dorado and Toa Baja in Puerto Rico.

Type: Stream
Description: river in Puerto Rico
Also known as: “Rio Cocal” and “Río Cocal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antonio López.

Antonio López

Disaster remains

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Antonio L. López was a merchant steamship that was built in Scotland in 1882 for the Spanish Compañía Transatlántica Española. A United States Navy auxiliary cruiser sank her in the Spanish–American War when she was trying to run the US blockade to supply materiél to the Spanish garrison on Puerto Rico. Antonio López is situated 3½ km west of Cocal River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toa Baja and San Juan.

Toa Baja

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Toa Baja is a municipality and town of 75,000 residents in the Toa Valley region of San Juan's metropolitan area in Puerto Rico along the island's Atlantic coast.

San Juan

Photo: Tomás Fano, CC BY-SA 2.0.

San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico and its largest city, with 342,000 inhabitants in the municipality and 2,203,000 in the metropolitan area. Founded in 1521 by the Spanish conquistadors, San Juan is the oldest city under the jurisdiction of the United States.

San Juan

Quarter

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Old San Juan is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of San Juan Islet in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. San Juan is situated 9 km east of Cocal River.

Cocal River

Categories: river and body of water
Location: Dorado, Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude

18.468° or 18° 28′ 5″ north

Longitude

-66.19822° or 66° 11′ 54″ west

Open location code

77CMFR92+6P

GeoNames ID

4567790

Wikidata ID

Q7386247

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Satellite Map

Discover Cocal River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Catalan to Venetian—“Cocal River” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Río Cocal”
Cebuano: “Río Cocal”
Spanish: “Río Cocal (Puerto Rico)”
Spanish: “Río Cocal”
Venetian: “Río Cocal”

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