The Salinas is a river in
Guatemala
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. The river is called
Río Negro from its sources (located at ) in the highlands of
Huehuetenango and
El Quiché
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until it reaches the
Chixoy hydroelectric dam (located at ), where the
Río Salama and Rio Carchela converge with the Río Negro. After the Chixoy dam, the river is called
Río Chixoy and flows northwards through Alta Verapaz until it reaches the border with
Mexico
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. From there on it continues along the border for as the Salinas river until it finally converges with the
Río de la Pasión (at ) to form the
Usumacinta
The Usumacinta River (; named after the howler monkey) is a river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala. It is formed by the junction of the Pasión River, which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala) and the Salinas R ...
river which flows into the
Gulf of Mexico
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.
Guatemala's National Institute for Electricity (INDE) is planning the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Chixoy river. The proposed location of the
Xalalá hydroelectric dam is situated at .
in the municipality of
Ixcán
Ixcán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Its administrative centre is the town of Playa Grande. The municipality consists of 176 communities, called ''aldeas''. It has an area of 1693 km2. It is the northernmos ...
,
El Quiché
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
.
See also
*
Río Negro Massacre
References
External links
Map of Guatemala including the river
Rivers of Guatemala
Rivers of Mexico
Guatemala–Mexico border
International rivers of North America
Geography of Mesoamerica
Geography of the Petén Department
Border rivers
Usumacinta River
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