The Goascorán River or Río Goascorán is a river in Central America. It rises in the La Sierra mountain ridge in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
and flows southward along the
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south ...
-Honduras border for about 75 miles (120 km). It courses past Goascorán city to La Unión Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Fonseca.
References
Inversiones estratégicas en la cuenca binacional del río Goascorán
Information Sheet on Ramsar WetlandsGoascoran River information from Encyclopedia Britannica
Rivers of Honduras
Rivers of El Salvador
El Salvador–Honduras border
International rivers of North America
Border rivers
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