San Juan River (Nicaragua)
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| Native name | Río San Juan (Spanish) |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Lake Nicaragua |
| Mouth | |
• location | San Juan Lagoon on the Caribbean Sea |
• coordinates | 10°56′23″N 83°41′54″W / 10.93972°N 83.69833°W |
| Length | 110 mi (180 km) |
The San Juan River (
National Assembly of Nicaragua
to re-open the San Juan River to commercial barge traffic.
The Cañas–Jerez Treaty states that Nicaragua owns the waters of the river and that Costa Rica can only use it for commercial navigation on certain parts of the river at Nicaragua's discretion.
The San Juan River is home to freshwater bull sharks that also go into Lake Nicaragua in addition to a wide array of marine life and biodiversity.
History
Before the
California Gold Rush, many people from all over the world traveled to California to mine for gold. Tens of thousands took a steamboat that was operated by the Accessory Transit Company and was directed by Cornelius Vanderbilt.[2] The boat travelled up the San Juan River and across Lake Nicaragua; a stagecoach
completed the connection to the Pacific coast.
Rapids
As one travels upstream from the Caribbean Sea to Lake Nicaragua, one encounters the following sets of rapids:[3]
- Raudal de Machuca
- Raudal del Mico
- Raudal Los Valos
- Raudal del Castillo (Raudal del Diablo)
- Raudal del Toro
See also
References
- ^ Frank Jacobs (February 28, 2012). "The First Google Maps War". The New York Times.
- ISBN 0-521-84096-1.
- ^ Ephraim George Squier (1852). Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal. Vol. I. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. pp. 82, 106, 193. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
External links
Media related to San Juan River at Wikimedia Commons
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