Aguán River
Template:Short description Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other The Aguán River (Script error: No such module "IPA".); also commonly known by its Spanish name, Rio Aguán) is a river in Honduras. 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 east of Puerto Castilla.
The river is Template:Convert long. In 1998 Hurricane Mitch caused to the river to burst its banks at several points along its length. The maximal discharge at Sabá was estimated at almost Template:Convert. The village of Santa Rosa de Aguán was washed away by the river, causing dozens of deaths.[1]
The Aguán River's watershed is one of seven watersheds in Honduras,[2] and covers over Template:Convert, of which around 200,000 are in the Aguán River Valley.[3] The Aguán River Valley includes the major agricultural area of Bajo Aguán.
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- ↑ *Hurricane Mitch in Central America, Retrieved 23 April 2005 from http://www.jonkohl.com/publications/hurricane.htm Template:Webarchive.
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- ↑ Jeffrey R. Jones, Colonization and Environment: Land Settlement Projects in Central America, The United Nations University Press, 1990