Usumacinta River
Sign in to saveriver in México and Guatemala
Key facts
- Native name
- Río Usumacinta ( Spanish )
- Countries
- Guatemala and Mexico
- State
- Tabasco , Chiapas
- Municipality
- Tenosique , Balancán , Emiliano Zapata , Jonuta and Centla
- Source
- Confluence of Chixoy River and Pasión River
- Location
- Esperanza, Petén Department , Guatemala
- Coordinates
- 16°00′00″N 90°32′35″W / 16°N 90.542942°W / 16; -90.542942
- Mouth
- Gulf of Mexico
- Elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Length
- 1,000 km (620 mi)
- Average
- 4,500 m /s (160,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Grijalva River Lacantun River
- Right
- Pasión River Salamá River Rio Carchela
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
In "Tres Brazos" the Usumacinta joins to San Pedrito river and Grijalva river, in the Wetlands of Centla, biosphere reserve, in Tabasco. A motorboat sailing on the Usumacinta River. One bank is Guatemala; the other is Mexico.
The Usumacinta River ( Spanish pronunciation: [usumaˈsinta]; 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 River, also known as the Rio Chixoy, or the Rio Negro, which descends from the Sierra Madre de Guatemala. It defines part of the border between Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas, then continues its northwesterly course, meandering through the Mexican state of Tabasco to the Gulf of Mexico.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Usumacinta River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations