Coco River
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major river in Nicaragua and Honduras forming much of the border and emptying into the Caribbean Sea at Cape Gracias a Dios
Key facts
- Countries
- Nicaragua and Honduras
- Location
- Somoto Canyon , Madriz Department , Nicaragua
- Coordinates
- 13°27′06″N 86°42′32″W / 13.45167°N 86.70889°W / 13.45167; -86.70889
- Elevation
- 2,219 ft (676 m)
- Mouth
- Caribbean Sea
- Length
- 841 km (523 mi)
- Basin size
- 27,000 km (10,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 600 m /s (21,000 cu ft/s)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Coco river (Spanish: Río Coco, Miskito: Wangki, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River) is a river located on the border of northern Nicaragua and southern Honduras. It is the longest river that runs entirely within the Central American Isthmus with a total length of 841 km (523 mi).
The river originates in the Somoto Canyon National Monument, near where the Pan American Highway crosses into Nicaragua, and flows through low mountainous terrain 841 kilometres (523 mi) into the Caribbean Sea at Cabo Gracias a Dios; the middle and lower reaches form the Honduras-Nicaragua border.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coco River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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