The Río Paz () is a river in southern Guatemala. Its sources are located in the Quezalapa 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 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 contin ...

at . The Paz River is long, and its river basin covers a territory of in Guatemala. It flows through the

Ahuachapán Department Ahuachapán () is a department of El Salvador in the west of the country. The capital is Ahuachapán. In the South it has the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de Apaneca (Apaneca Grand Hill). Its extension is and has more than 33 ...

and into the Laguna el Espino.

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