Cahabón River
The Río Cahabón is a 196-kilometre-long river in eastern Guatemala. From its sources in the Sierra de las Minas mountain range in Baja Verapaz it turns north and then east into Alta Verapaz, flowing through Santa Cruz Verapaz, Tactic, Cobán, San Pedro Carchá, Semuc Champey and Santa María Cahabón below which it joins the smaller Polochic River.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
- …is also known as “Rio Cahabon”
- Description: river in Guatemala
Cahabón River
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Latitude
15.42299° or 15° 25′ 23″ north
Longitude
-89.57648° or 89° 34′ 35″ west
Open location code
767GCCFF+5C
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cahabón River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كاهابون”
- Asturian: “Ríu Cahabón”
- Basque: “Cahabón”
- Catalan: “río Cahabon”
- Dutch: “Cahabón River”
- German: “Rio Cahabón”
- German: “Río Cahabón”
- Irish: “Abhainn Cahabón”
- Italian: “Cahabón”
- Japanese: “カーボン川”
- Lithuanian: “Kahabonas”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cahabón”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cahabón”
- Spanish: “río Cahabón”
- Spanish: “Río Cahabón”
- Ukrainian: “Кахабон”
- Welsh: “Afon Cahabón”
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