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Chocón Machacas River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Chocón Machacas River is a river in eastern Guatemala. The sources of the 53-kilometre-long (33 mi) river are on the eastern slopes of the Sierra de Santa Cruz at 15.793835°N 89.133890°W / 15.793835; -89.133890. From there it flows in a generally west-south-west direction into the Golfete Dulce. The Chocón Machacas and Golfete Dulce complex forms one of Guatemala's few remaining habitats for the endangered Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus).

Flows through: Guatemala.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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