The Río Paz () is a river in southern Guatemala. Its sources are located in the
Quezalapa
Quezalapa is a town in Ahuachapán, El Salvador.
Quezalapa is the Nahuat word for the Quetzal bird.
It is located 43 mi (or 70 km) West of San Salvador, the country's capital.
Nearby is Cerro de Apaneca mountain which is part of th ...
mountains in the north of
Jutiapa
Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala.
Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 892 m (2,926 ft), . From there it flows in a south-westerly direction and marks the border with
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
for most of its course before reaching 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 ...
at .
The Paz River is long, and its river basin covers a territory of in Guatemala.
It flows through the
Ahuachapán Department and into the Laguna el Espino.
References
Rivers of El Salvador
Rivers of Guatemala
El Salvador–Guatemala border
International rivers of North America
Border rivers
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