Where can I find shapefiles for the rivers of Puerto Rico?

Question

I would like to find shapefile data for all of the rivers in Puerto Rico. This could be as a subset of the rivers in the United States. I already have an accurate boundary of the island.

Answer 1

Here are the open data sets that match your requirements:

• Data.gov's Puerto Rico hydrography data (shapefile format)

• Data.gov's Puerto Rico hydrography data (all formats)

Seems to be the same data sets, but available via geoplatform.gov site:

• Puerto Rico hydrography data (shapefile format)

• Puerto Rico hydrography data (all formats)

Finally, these Puerto Rico hydrography data sets are in ESRI ArcInfo interchange file (E00).

Answer 2

I found the Puerto Rico GIS centre's pages at http://www2.pr.gov/agencias/gis/Pages/default.aspx. Sadly I don't speak enough (any) Spanish to work out if there are any data files there but I did find a WMS of the hydrography, which suggests there is likely to be a shapefile somewhere.

http://gis.otg.pr.gov/ArcGIS/services/Basemap/Hydrography/mapserver/WMSServer