The Río ícán is a river in Southwest Guatemala. Its sources are in the
Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre (Spanish, 'mother mountain range') may refer to:
Places and mountains Mexico
*Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain range in northwestern Mexico and southern Arizona
*Sierra Madre Oriental, a mountain range in northeastern Mexico
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range, on the slopes of the
Santo Tomás volcano in the department of
Suchitepéquez. It flows southwards through the coastal lowlands of Suchitepequez to the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
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The river runs more or less parallel to its main tributary, the
Sís River. The Sís–Icán river basin covers a territory of .
See also
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List of rivers of Guatemala
This is a list of rivers in Guatemala arranged by drainage basin. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Gulf of Mexico
The following rivers flow into the Grijalva River in ...
References
Rivers of Guatemala
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