Puerto Rico Highway 901

Highway 901
Ruta 901
Carretera Ernesto Carrasquillo [1]
Route information
Maintained by Puerto Rico DTPW
Length	15.1 km [2]  (9.4 mi)
Existed	1953 [3] –present
Major junctions
South end	PR-760 in Emajagua
Major intersections	PR-53 in Emajagua PR-7760 in Emajagua PR-53 in Emajagua PR-9911 in Camino Nuevo PR-9901 in Camino Nuevo PR-9914 in Juan Martín PR-3 in Juan Martín
North end	PR-9910 in Yabucoa barrio-pueblo
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Puerto Rico
Municipalities	Maunabo, Yabucoa
Highway system
Roads in Puerto Rico List
← PR-891 → PR-908

Puerto Rico Highway 901 (PR-901) is a highway in the southeast coast of Puerto Rico which begins in Yabucoa an ends in Maunabo. This road begins at its junction with PR-182 in downtown Yabucoa and ends at its intersection with PR-760 in Emajagua barrio. ^[4]

Route description

PR-3 in Yabucoa enters downtown and continues uphill into the mountains. The Puerto Rico Department of Transportation designed PR-901 as a primary route ^[5] while PR-53 is under construction, because it is a more direct way to the Maunabo area than PR-3, as the latter has more curves. PR-901 runs parallel to the coastline for several kilometers, but due to the mountains ending at the coastline, PR-901 run several hundred feet above sea level. This feature makes PR-901 a scenic route. ^[4] Drivers traveling from Humacao to the area of Guayama are recommended^{[ by whom? ]} to use PR-30 to PR-52 and then PR-53 (Salinas-Guayama) as opposed to using the PR-3/PR-901 route because it is safer and shorter. This by-pass will end when construction of PR-53 is completed. When PR-53 is finished, PR-901 will become a normal rural road, and PR-53 will become the primary route to Maunabo.

• Puerto Rico Highway 901 by municipality
• 
  Heading south in Camino Nuevo, Yabucoa
• 
  Heading south in Emajagua, Maunabo

Major intersections

Municipality	Location	km [2]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Maunabo	Emajagua	15.1	9.4	PR-760  – Maunabo, Patillas, Sector La Playa, Sector El Faro	Southern terminus of PR-901; the Ruta Panorámica continues toward Yabucoa via Quebrada Arenas–Talante
		14.9– 14.8	9.3– 9.2	PR-53 north (Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto) – Yabucoa
		14.5	9.0	PR-7760  – Bordaleza
		12.4– 12.3	7.7– 7.6	PR-53 south (Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto) – Maunabo
Yabucoa	Camino Nuevo	5.0	3.1	PR-9911  – Playa Lucía
		4.0	2.5	PR-9901  – Juan Martín
		3.3	2.1	To PR-53 (Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto) / PR-9914  – Humacao
	Juan Martín	3.0– 2.9	1.9– 1.8	PR-9914 east to PR-53 (Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto) – Humacao
		1.1	0.68	PR-3  – Humacao, Maunabo
	Yabucoa barrio-pueblo	0.0	0.0	PR-9910 (Calle Cristóbal Colón) to PR-182  – Yabucoa	Northern terminus of PR-901; the Ruta Panorámica continues toward Maunabo and San Lorenzo via Calabazas
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• Puerto Rico portal
• U.S. Roads portal

• 1953 Puerto Rico highway renumbering

References

1. "Ruta Panorámica Luis Muñoz Marín / Carretera Ernesto Carasquillo, Camino Nuevo". www.cartogiraffe.com. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
2. "PR-901" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved 28 February 2020.
3. "Maunabo, Memoria Núm. 77" (PDF). Puerto Rico Planning Board (in Spanish). 1955. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
4. National Geographic Maps (2011). Puerto Rico (Map). 1:125,000. Adventure Map (Book 3107). Evergreen, Colorado: National Geographic Maps. ISBN   978-1566955188. OCLC   756511572.
5. "Tránsito Promedio Diario (AADT)". Transit Data (Datos de Transito) (in Spanish). DTOP PR. p. 135. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019.

External links

• Media related to Puerto Rico Highway 901 at Wikimedia Commons