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

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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

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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 betwe ...

; 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 or variants may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Coco'' (2009 film), a French comedy film * ''Coco'' (2017 film), an American animated fantasy film * '' Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle'' (), a 2020 Japanese anime film ...

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