River Wangki in Miskitu or Río Coco, in Spanish, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River, is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...

located on the border of northern

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and southern

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. It is the longest river that runs entirely within the Central American isthmus with a total length of . The river originates in the Somoto Canyon National Monument, near where the

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crosses into Nicaragua, and flows through low mountainous terrain into the

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Cabo Gracias a Dios Cabo Gracias a Dios is a cape located in the middle of the east coast of Central America, within what is variously called the Mosquito Coast and La Mosquitia. It is the point where the Rio Coco flows into the Caribbean, and is the border bet ...

; 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 above normal stage, two days after category 5

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made landfall.

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Coco Coco International rivers of North America Honduras–Nicaragua border Border rivers {{Nicaragua-river-stub

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