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Motagua River

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Motagua River

River, eastern Guatemala. It is the country's longest river, flowing about 250 mi (400 km) east and northeast into the Gulf of Honduras near the Honduran border. Locally the river is called the Silbapec near its source and the Río Grande farther downstream. It is a major transportation artery for bananas, coffee, and other crops raised in its eastern valleys.



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To visit Quirigua Park--which, like Tikal and Antigua, has been declared a UNESCO human heritage site--you would travel east along the Motagua river valley.
A year ago the PDH charged the Las Vacas River Hydroelectric Company, along with government ministers and several mayors, of violating human environmental rights and health for contaminating the Motagua River.
Hydroelectric plants have been constructed or are being planned along the Salama and Motagua rivers in central Guatemala (neither of which are considered as environmentally sensitive as the Usumacinta and Cahabon), as well as along the Rio Chixoy, yet another branch of the Usumacinta.
 
 
 
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