The Chocón Machacas Protected Biotope is a protected nature reserve in eastern

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

. It is located in the municipality of

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, in a densely forested area covering the lower reaches of the

Chocón Machacas River The Chocón Machacas River is a river in eastern Guatemala. The sources of the riverCastillo Lemus: 12 are on the eastern slopes of the Sierra de Santa Cruz (Guatemala), Sierra de Santa Cruz at . From there it flows in a generally west-south-west d ...

basin and the northern shores of the Río Dulce- Golfete Dulce system (). The Chocón Machacas river and Golfete Dulce complex form one of Guatemala's few remaining habitats for the endangered Caribbean manatee ('' Trichechus manatus'').

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* * Protected areas of Guatemala Protected areas established in 1989 Central American Atlantic moist forests {{NorthAm-protected-area-stub