Anchorage · Cabo Rojo
Puerto Real (Cabo Rojo)
Some small boats use it as a hurricane anchorage.
- Charted 3 to 6 ft
- A round basin 0.7 mile across
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.
Loading the swell model…
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
- Basin 6 to 15 ft
- Charted depth
- 3 to 6 ft (0.9 to 1.8 m) below MLLWThe 4 charted soundings inside the area, surveyed 1992 to 2006. MLLW is mean lower low water, the chart's datum: at most tides there is more water than this.
- Seabed on the chart
- No bottom note is charted here.
- Shelter
- Some small boats use it as a hurricane anchorage.
- Position
- 18.06994, -67.19090: the charted water area Puerto Real.The Coast Pilot: "basin 6 to 15 feet".
Protected areas
- About 0.3 nautical mile from Finca Belvedere Natural Reserve: Fishing restricted, commercial and recreational.Managed by DRNA. Source: NOAA Marine Protected Areas Inventory (v2023)
Charted dangers within 0.5 nautical mile
3 wrecks and 3 rocks on the chart, measured from the position above.
- Wreck showing hull, always dry, 0.2 nautical mile NE
- Dangerous wreck, covers and uncovers, 0.2 nautical mile NNW
- Wreck showing hull, always dry, 0.2 nautical mile SE
- Rock, covers and uncovers, 0.3 nautical mile S
- Rock, 0 ft (0.1 m) over it, 0.3 nautical mile W
- Rock, 1 ft (0.3 m) over it, 0.4 nautical mile WSW