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| name_other         = Río Segovia, Cape River, Yara River
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| source1_location   = [[Somoto Canyon National Monument|Somoto Canyon]], [[Madriz Department]], [[Nicaragua]]
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The '''Wangki''' river in [[Miskito language|Miskitu]] or '''Río Coco''', in Spanish, formerly known as the '''Río Segovia''', '''Cape River''',<ref>[http://chestofbooks.com/travel/reference/World-Gazetteer/Cape-River-Capua.html Cape River-Capua], Chest of Books website, accessed 8 March 2010.</ref> or '''Yara River''',<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Lussan, Raveneau de|year=1900}}</ref> is a [[Rivers of Honduras|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 {{cvt|841|km|abbr=on}}.<ref name="LaPr">{{cite news | first=William | last=Aragón R. | title=Desentrañando el Gran Cañón | url=http://www-ni.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2006/marzo/09/servicios/guiaturistica/92982.shtml | work=La Prensa | accessdate=2007-08-08 | language=Spanish | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807123206/http://www-ni.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2006/marzo/09/servicios/guiaturistica/92982.shtml | archivedate=2007-08-07 }}</ref>

The river originates in the [[Somoto Canyon National Monument]], near where the [[Pan American Highway]] crosses into Nicaragua, and flows through low mountainous terrain {{convert|841|km}} into the [[Caribbean Sea]] at [[Cabo Gracias a Dios]]; the middle and lower reaches form the [[Honduras-Nicaragua border]].

On September 7, 2007, major international news wires reported that the Río Coco was over {{convert|11|m}} above normal stage, two days after Category 5 [[Hurricane Felix]] made landfall.

== Location ==
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{{PoI|Somoto Canyon - source|13.4518|-86.7088|NIC|Elevation: 2219 ft}}
{{PoI|El Ocotal|13.6111|-86.46944|NIC|Elevation: 1776 ft}}
{{PoI|Los Encuentros|13.4959|-86.2667|NIC|Elevation: 1509 ft}}
{{PoI|Jicaro River confluence|13.5167|-86.0028|NIC|Elev: 1150 ft}}
{{PoI|Joins Nicaraguan-Honduran border|13.8328|-85.75278|NIC|Elev: 856 ft}}
{{PoI|Waspam|14.7458|-83.9722|NIC|Elev: 83 ft}}
{{PoI|Cabo Gracias a Dios -  mouth|15.00|-83.1334|NIC|Elev: 0 ft}}
{{PoI end}}

==See also==
*[[Honduras–Nicaragua border]]
*[[List of rivers of the Americas]]

==References==
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{{Rivers of Honduras}}
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[[Category:Rivers of Honduras|Coco]]
[[Category:Rivers of Nicaragua|Coco]]
[[Category:International rivers of North America]]
[[Category:Honduras–Nicaragua border]]
[[Category:Border rivers]]


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