Rivers of Honduras

Rivers Of Honduras

Rivers in Honduras is a list of the rivers in Honduras, including those it shares with neighbours. The most important river in Honduras is the Ulúa, which flows 400 kilometers to the Caribbean through the economically important Valle de Sula. Numerous other rivers drain the interior highlands and empty north into the Caribbean Sea. These other rivers are important, not as transportation routes, but because of the broad fertile valleys they have produced. They can also create problems for human inhabitants along their banks, and those who rely on the bridges spanning them, during times of intense rains. An example of those was the Choluteca River, which wreaked havoc in the capital of Tegucigalpa during Hurricane Mitch.

• Río Patuca is the largest in Honduras and the second largest in Central America.
• Río Ulúa is the most important river economically.
• Río Grande o Choluteca runs through the capital Tegucigalpa.
• Río Coco borders Nicaragua.
• Río Negro (Central America) is another river that borders Nicaragua.
• Río Goascorán divides El Salvador from Honduras.