The Villalobos River is a river of
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
, in the
Guatemala Department
Guatemala Department is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital is Guatemala City, which also serves as the national capital. The department consists of Guatemala City and several of its suburbs.
The department covers a surface are ...
. It is a tributary that drains into the
Lake Amatitlán and its basin. Making it one of the main sources of pollution towards the Lake.
Villalobos is made up of several micro-basins; The Platanitos, Molino, Pinula, Las Minas, San Lucas and Parrameño rivers converge there. The Villalobos River is formed from the union of the Molino and San Lucas tributary rivers at kilometer 12.5 of the CA-9 route to the Pacific, close to the named bridge complex. It is considered to start from that point to its mouth in Lake Amatitlán.
See also
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List of rivers of Guatemala
References
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*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
Rivers of Guatemala
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