The Aguán River (); also commonly known by its Spanish name, Rio Aguán) is a
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
. It rises in the Yoro region to the west of
San Lorenzo and briefly runs south before turning east-northeast, passing San Lorenzo,
Olanchito and
Tocoa before entering the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...
east of
Puerto Castilla.
The river is long. In 1998
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was an extremely deadly and catastrophic Atlantic hurricane, which became the second-deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin on record. Mitch caused 11,374 fatalities in Central America in 1998, including approximately ...
caused to the river to burst its banks at several points along its length. The maximal discharge at Sabá was estimated at almost . The village of
Santa Rosa de Aguán was washed away by the river, causing dozens of deaths.
The Aguán River's watershed is one of seven watersheds in Honduras, and covers over , of which around 200,000 are in the Aguán River Valley.
[Jeffrey R. Jones]
Colonization and Environment: Land Settlement Projects in Central America
The United Nations University Press, 1990 The Aguán River Valley includes the major agricultural area of
Bajo Aguán.
See also
*
List of rivers of Honduras
References
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Rivers of Honduras