The Guayape River (
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: Río Guayape) is a major
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
that drains much of the Department of
Olancho
Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km² and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants.
The departmental capital is Juticalpa, ...
and central
Honduras. The largest tributary to the Guayape is the
Río Jalán, which joins it at El Plomo, not far from the town of
Juticalpa. From there the river passes many small towns, including El
Esquilinchuche. The largest bridge over the Guayape is the Puente del Burro, a modern cement structure that replaced the huge steel suspension bridge that had stood for decades after being built by the
US Army Corps of Engineers
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, and was destroyed by
Hurricane Mitch
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in 1998. Far downriver from the bridge, the Guayape joins with the
Guayambre River, from then on the waterway is known as the
Río Patuca.
File:Guayape Boqueron.JPG, The Río Guayape near Esquilinchuche, facing El Boquerón in the Sierra de Agalta
File:Guayape from Puente del Burro.JPG, The Río Guayape, taken from the Puente del Burro in the municipality of Catacamas
Rivers of Honduras
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