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This is a list of rivers in Guatemala arranged by drainage basin. This list is arranged by drainage basin , with respective tributaries indented under their larger stream's name. Gulf of Mexico
"Descripción de Lagunas Costeras de Guatemala" (PDF). Lagunas costeras de Centroamérica. OIRSA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27; USACE (June 2000). "Water Resources Assessment of Guatemala" (PDF). US Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-09; USACE (June 2000).
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes and reservoirs in Guatemala. Pages in category "Lakes of Guatemala" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
A map of Guatemala. Guatemala is mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the east by Belize and by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
Pages in category "Rivers of Guatemala" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Gulf of Mexico basin covers 47% of Guatemala and 10 watersheds. The rivers in this basin have the largest flows in the country and drain towards Mexico. Surface runoff in this basin is 43.3 km 3. [3] Guatemala, as its (Mayan) name indicates, is a land of forests.
The Grijalva and its tributaries the Cuilco and San Miguel rivers drain west into the Chiapas Depression and from there into the Gulf of Mexico. Lake Atitlan is a land-locked basin encompassed with lofty mountains. [1] About 14 km (9 mi) south of Guatemala City lies Lake Amatitlán and the town of Amatitlán.
The lake has a maximum depth of about 340 metres (1,120 ft) [1] and an average depth of 154 metres (505 ft). [4] Its surface area is 130.1 km 2 (50.2 sq mi). [1] It is approximately 18 km × 8 km (11.2 mi × 5.0 mi) with around 20 km 3 (4.8 cu mi) of water. Atitlán is an endorheic lake, fed by two nearby rivers and not draining into the ocean ...