The Chumpan River is a river in

Campeche Campeche (; yua, Kaampech ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Located in southeast Mexico, it is bordered by ...

state of southern Mexico. It originates along the border between Campeche and Tabasco, and flows generally northwards to empty into Balchacah Lagoon, a subsidiary lagoon to Laguna de Términos, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico. Its chief tributaries are the San Joaquin and Salsipuedes rivers. The Chumpan drains an area of 1,874 square kilometers. It is bounded by the Usumacinta River watershed on the south and west, and the

Candelaria River The Candelaria River is a river of Central America that flows from Guatemala to Laguna de Términos, Mexico, It has a length of about and drains a basin of . See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from nort ...

watershed on the east.Bach, L., Calderon, R., Cepeda, M. F., Oczkowski, A., Olsen, S.B., Robadue, D. (2005). Level One Site Profile: Laguna de Términos and its Watershed, Mexico. Narragansett, RI: Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island. The climate of the watershed is tropical and semi-humid. The average annual temperature is 25º C, and the average annual rainfall is 1,602 mm. The average annual drainage volume is 1,368 million cubic meters. The northern, uplands portion of the watershed is in the Petén–Veracruz moist forests ecoregion. As it reaches the northern lowlands it flows through the eastern extension of the Pantanos de Centla, an expanse of seasonally- to permanently-flooded freshwater swamp forest. The

Usumacinta mangroves The Usumacinta mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1437) covers the mangrove forests ont the Gulf Coast of Mexico, around the margins of the Laguna de Términos ("Lagoon of Ends"). The "Ends" in the name refer to the mouths of the rivers that empty int ...

extend around the shore of the Laguna de Términos where fresh and salt water meet, including the Balachah lagoon system.

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{{Coord missing, Mexico Geography of Campeche Petén–Veracruz moist forests Gulf Coast of Mexico Drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico Rivers of Mexico