The Río Paz () is a river in southern Guatemala. Its sources are located in the Quezalapa mountains in the north of

Jutiapa Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala. Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 892 m (2,926 ft), it is the capital of the department of Jutiapa. Its Catedral San Crist ...

. From there it flows in a south-westerly direction and marks the border with

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of 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 by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

for most of its course before reaching the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

at . The Paz River is long, and its basin covers a territory of in Guatemala. It flows through the Ahuachapán Department and into the Laguna el Espino.

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Rivers of El Salvador Rivers of Guatemala El Salvador–Guatemala border International rivers of North America Border rivers {{Guatemala-river-stub