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Puerto Rico Highway 139

Highway in Puerto Rico

Highway in Puerto Rico

FieldValue
statePR
typePR
route139
mapMapa de la carretera PR-139 en Ponce, Puerto Rico (M139).svg
length_km25.2
length_ref
direction_aSouth
terminus_ain Machuelo Arriba
* {{jctstatePRUrban505}} in Machuelo Arriba
* {{jctstatePRTer139RTer5139}} in Machuelo Arriba
direction_bNorth
terminus_bin Anón–Jauca
municipalitiesPonce
previous_typeSec
previous_route138
next_typeSec
next_route140
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  • in Machuelo Arriba
  • in Machuelo Arriba

Puerto Rico Highway 139 (PR-139) is a two-way secondary highway in the municipality of Ponce in Puerto Rico. With a length of 25.2 km, it extends from the interchange of PR-10 and PR-14 located in Barrio Machuelo Arriba to the junction with PR-143 on the Ponce–Jayuya municipal limit.

Route description

The road runs south to north through Barrio Machuelo Arriba, where serves as the main access to few communities and neighborhood developments before leaving the city of Ponce to the mountains. Then, the road makes its way though the rural area, mostly alongside Río Cerrillos in barrio Maragüez, bordering the western bank of Lake Cerrillos until it reaches upstream of the reservoir, where it crosses the river for make its way along its eastern bank. Farther north, PR-139 climbs the mountains of the Cordillera Central through Barrio Anón until its terminus at the Ruta Panorámica.

Letrero en la PR-139, a metros del comienzo de la ruta en Ponce, Puerto Rico, mirando hacia el noreste (DSC00569).jpg|Northbound sign, a few yards from the start of the route in Ponce, Puerto Rico, looking northeast

PR-139 in Barrio Maraguez in Ponce, Puerto Rico, heading SB (IMG 3784).jpg|Heading south in Barrio Maragüez, Ponce, with the city of Ponce and the Río Portugués channel in the background and the Caribbean Sea in the far background

Communities served

As the road is traveled in a northbound fashion, it serves barrios Machuelo Arriba, Maragüez, and Anón. In Machuelo Arriba, PR-139 meets with PR-505, PR-139R, PR-5139, and the Río Bayagán; in Maragüez, it crosses through Cerrillos State Forest, and in Anón, it meets with Río Prieto and Río Blanco, two tributaries of the Río Cerrillos.

History

The entire length of PR-139 is part of the old Road No. 51, a highway that led from Ponce to Jayuya until the 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering, a process implemented by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works () that increased the insular highway network to connect existing routes with different locations around Puerto Rico. Route 51 extended from PR-14 (old Road No. 1) between barrios Machuelo Abajo and Machuelo Arriba to the intersection of PR-143 with PR-140 (former Road No. 15) on the Ponce–Jayuya–Utuado municipal tripoint. Its original way currently corresponds to PR-139 and PR-143, the latter from PR-139 in the east to PR-140 in the west. PR-139R also belongs to an original segment of the old Road No. 51. The other part of the highway disappeared after the creation of Cerrillos Dam.

Major intersections

References

References

  1. "Tránsito Promedio Diario (AADT)". DTOP PR.
  2. "PR-139".
  3. "PR-139R".
  4. "PR-5139".
  5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091122131606/http://www.dtop.gov.pr/ACT/Manual_Especificaciones/ManualDise%C3%B1o_Cap1.pdf ''PRHTA Design Manual.''] Manual de Especificaciones y Diseño; General Design Criteria. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico DTOP. Pages 1-2 and 1-3. Accessed 30 April 2019.
  6. (1955). "Jayuya, Memoria Núm. 68".
  7. (1953). "Ponce, Memoria Núm. 27".
  8. National Geographic Maps. (2011). "Puerto Rico". National Geographic Maps.
  9. "Pr- 139, Ponce, Puerto Rico".
  10. "PR 5139 over CERILLO RIVER Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico Bridge Inspection Report".
  11. "PR 139 over BAYAGAN RIVER Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico Bridge Inspection Report".
  12. "PR 139 over MARAGUEZ RIVER Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico Bridge Inspection Report".
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