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Lake Izabal (Spanish pronunciation:), also known as the Golfo Dulce, is the largest lake in Guatemala with a surface area of 589.6 km 2 (145,700 acres; 227.6 sq mi) and a maximum depth of 18 m (59 ft). The Polochic River is the largest river that drains into the lake.
The Izabal Department surrounds Lake Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), which is Guatemala's largest lake (about 48 km long and 24 km wide, with an area of about 590 km 2). The Spanish Colonial fort of San Felipe, now a Guatemalan national monument, overlooks the point where the lake flows into the Río Dulce .
At the entrance to the river there is a small Spanish colonial fort, the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, built to stop pirates entering the lake from the Caribbean when this part of Central America was an important shipping staging point. Just after the river flows from Lake Izabal it is spanned by one of the biggest bridges in Central America ...
The airport is on the east side of the Dulce River, which connects Lake Izabal and Lake El Golfete. No main roads connect the airport with the town, but it has good access from the river. West approach and departure are over the water. The Puerto Barrios VOR-DME (Ident: IOS) is located 21.9 nautical miles (40.6 km) east of the airport. [3]
Livingston is a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras. The town serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios.
Lake Patzcuaro, a popular destination for Day of the Dead festivities, has lost more than half of its volume since authorities started keeping track. A lake in Mexico’s ‘magical town’ is ...
The Franja Transversal del Norte (English: Northern Transversal Strip) is a region in Guatemala delimited to the north by an imaginary line between Vértice de Santiago in Huehuetenango and Modesto Méndez Port in Izabal and in the south by La Mesilla in Huehuetenango and Izabal lake.
In May 2017, the water in Lake Izabal turned red for a period of weeks, and local fishermen began protesting the mine. [6] At least one protester was shot and killed during these protests. [7] The government blamed an algae bloom caused by sewage and denied connection to the mine, but local villagers blockaded the mine entrance and filed a lawsuit.