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18 longest rivers in Central America
18 rivers, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.
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The rivers
- 1Coco780 km
- 2Usumacinta560 km
- 3Patuca500 km
- 4Motagua486 km
- 5Río Grande de Matagalpa465 km
- 6Lempa422 km
- 7Candelaria402 km
- 8Chixoy400 km
- 9Aguán395 km
- 10Ulúa358 km
- 11Pasión353 km
- 12Choluteca349 km
- 13Belize290 km
- 14Río Bambana232 km
- 15Chucunaque231 km
- 16Tuira230 km
- 17Guayape203 km
- 18Río San Juan192 km
Length in km as Wikidata records it (P2043, the best-ranked figure). Each named river counts on its own: the river that carries the name, from its source to its mouth. Headstreams and tributaries with names of their own are rivers of their own, so the Missouri and the Mississippi are two rivers here, as are the Irtysh and the Ob (the Longest River Systems set measures such chains as one system, from the most distant source). A named section of a river is that river: the Solimões, as the Amazon’s upper course is called in Brazil, is the Amazon. Where the recorded length runs from a differently named headwater (the Congo’s from the Lualaba’s source), the course is drawn on up that headwater. Rivers under 200 km are in only when they are well known (30 or more Wikipedia editions), and a river whose mapped course covers under half its recorded length is left out. Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama (Mexico is North America’s). Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.
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