Puerto Rico Waterways and Water Bodies from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for waterways and water bodies in Puerto Rico, including rivers, wetlands, and bays. The dataset is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and was last updated on March 3, 2026. It includes attributes such as name, waterway type, width, depth, and coverage status.

Use Cases

• Map waterway networks for flood risk modeling based on the waterway and natural tags.
• Analyze physical characteristics of rivers and canals based on width and depth attributes.
• Identify and classify different water body types (e.g., wetland, bay) based on the natural tag.
• Support infrastructure planning by identifying covered waterways or tunnels based on the covered and tunnel attributes.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geometric attributes like width and depth, which can support quantitative analysis.
• Data is available in multiple standard geospatial formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, and KML.
• Features are tagged with multilingual names (name:en, name:es), supporting broader usability.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific water-related tags.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:11:29.803283; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Puerto Rico