The Paulaya River is a river in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
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Poyais Scheme
In 1822–1823, the river (under the name
Rio Tinto Rio Tinto, meaning "red river", may refer to:
Businesses
* Rio Tinto (corporation), an Anglo-Australian multinational mining and resources corporation
** Rio Tinto Alcan, based in Canada
** Rio Tinto Borax in America
*** Rio Tinto Borax Mine, a ...
/Black river) was at the centre of the fictional nation of Poyais invented by confidence trickster
Gregor MacGregor
General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central Am ...
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The town of Poyais, capital of this nation, was claimed to be on its bank
See also
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List of rivers of Honduras
Rivers in Honduras is a list of the rivers in Honduras, including those it shares with neighbours. Among the most important river in Honduras is the Ulúa, which flows through the economically important Valle de Sula. Numerous other rivers drain ...
References
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
*CIA map:
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*UN map:
:Image:Un-honduras.pngGoogle Maps*Sketch of the Mosquito shore, 1822
*A map of Mosquitia and the territory of Poyais with the Adjacent Countries
Rivers of Honduras
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