Anchorage · Cabo Rojo
Bahía de Boquerón
A good harbor, easily entered; the better hurricane anchorage is Guánica.
- Charted 27 to 28 ft
Swell, the next three days
A planning aid, not for navigation. Height, period and direction from CariCOOS's 120 m nearshore wave model at this anchorage's position; a model, not a measurement.
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Rolly: 2 ft or more of swell at 8 s or longer, or 3 ft at any period. Some roll: 1 ft at 8 s or longer.
The anchorage
- Coast Pilot depth
- Two entrances around Bajo Enmedio (4 to 17 ft, rocky)Holding: Soft bottom anywhere in the bay; hard on the shoals
- Charted depth
- 27 to 28 ft (8.2 to 8.5 m) below MLLWThe 3 charted soundings inside the area, within 0.1 nautical mile of its middle, surveyed 2006 to 2018. MLLW is mean lower low water, the chart's datum: at most tides there is more water than this.
- Seabed on the chart
- Rock (23 chart notes), sand (5), weed or seagrass (4)
- Shelter
- A good harbor, easily entered; the better hurricane anchorage is Guánica.
- Position
- 18.01778, -67.19597: the charted water area Bahía de Boquerón.The Coast Pilot: "soft bottom anywhere in the bay, except on the shoals where the bottom is hard".
Charted dangers within 0.5 nautical mile
2 rocks on the chart, measured from the position above.
- Rock, 7 ft (2.1 m) over it, 0.3 nautical mile SE
- Rock, 11 ft (3.3 m) over it, 0.5 nautical mile N