The Bobos River, also known as the Filobobos or Filo-Bobos River, is a river of
Veracruz
Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
state of eastern
Mexico
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.
The Bobos River is a tributary of the
Nautla. It originates on the northern slope of
Cofre de Perote
Cofre de Perote, also known by its Nahuatl names Naupa-Tecutépetl (from ''Nāuhpa-Tēuctēpetl'') and Nauhcampatépetl, both meaning something like "Place of Four Mountains" or "Mountain of the Lord of Four Places", is an inactive volcano loca ...
volcano, and flows northwards through a canyon before joining the Nautla, which then empties eastwards into the
Gulf of Mexico
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. The Bobos River canyon separates the
Sierra de Chiconquiaco on the east from the
Sierra Madre Oriental and
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt ( es, Eje Volcánico Transversal), also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the (''Snowy Mountain Range''), is an active volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico. Several of its highest peaks h ...
on the west.
[Lascurain Rangel, M., Avendaño-Reyes, S., Cházaro-Basañez, M., Geissert-Kientz, D., Villegas-Patraca, R., Gallo-Gómez, C. A., & Gutiérrez-Báez, C. (2017). Floristic, vegetational and geographic characteristics of the Sierra de Chiconquiaco, Veracruz, Mexico. Botanical Sciences, 95(4), 610-659. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.1111]
A protected area, known as Río Filo-Bobos y su Entorno, protects the lower stretch of the Bobos and a portion of the Nautla River valley near the confluence. The protected area was designated in 1992, and covers an area of 105.28 km
2.
[UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Río Filo-Bobos y su Entorno from the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 4 August 2022]
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The river is a popular whitewater rafting
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location.
See also
*List of rivers of Mexico
This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses.
Rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico
* Río Bravo, the name of the Rio Grande in Mexico
** S ...
References
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*The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984.
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
Rivers of Veracruz
Veracruz moist forests
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