Chocón Machacas River

Chocón Machacas River
Origin	Sierra de Santa Cruz
Mouth	Golfete Dulce 15°45′30″N 88°52′31″W / 15.75833°N 88.87528°W / 15.75833; -88.87528Coordinates: 15°45′30″N 88°52′31″W / 15.75833°N 88.87528°W / 15.75833; -88.87528
Basin countries	Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Izabal)
Length	53
Source elevation	100 m
Basin area	Gulf of Honduras

The Chocón Machacas River is a river in eastern Guatemala. The sources of the 53 km-long river^[1] are located on the eastern slopes of the Sierra de Santa Cruz at 15°47′38″N 89°08′02″W / 15.793835°N 89.133890°W / 15.793835; -89.133890. From there it flows in a generally west-south-west direction into the Golfete Dulce. The Chocón Machacas river and Golfete Dulce complex form one of Guatemala's few remaining habitats for the endangered Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus).

References

1. ^ Castillo Lemus: 12

• "Chocón Machacas Protected Biotope". Parkswatch.com. http://www.parkswatch.org/parkprofile.php?l=eng&country=gua&park=cmpb&page=phy. Retrieved 2011-03-07. 
• Yañez-Arancibia, Alejandro; David Zárate Lomelí, Angel Terán Cuevas (1995) (pdf). Evaluation of the coastal and marine resources of the Atlantic Coast of Guatemala. UNEP. http://www.cep.unep.org/publications-and-resources/technical-reports/tr34en.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-07. 
• Castillo Lemus, Noé Ariel (2005) (pdf). Estudio de identificación y caracterización preliminar de corredores biológicos con conectividad al biotopo Chocón Machacas. http://cdcguatemala.my3gb.com/documentos/chocon.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-07.