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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 ...
Lake Izabal is connected with the Caribbean Sea via the Dulce River and El Golfete lake. [1] The fort was strategically situated at the narrowest point on the river. [ 2 ] The Castillo de San Felipe was used by the Spanish for several centuries, during which time it was destroyed and looted several times by pirates.
The 194 kilometers long river flows eastwards through a deep valley and flows into Lake Izabal at The river is navigable for 30 kilometres (19 mi) to Panzós . It was used many years ago to transport coffee and timber , but most commercial transport in the river valley is now carried out overland, by trucks.
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.
An intense drought in Mexico revealed the Temple of Quechula in Chiapas. This has happened two other times since the area was flooded in 1966 -- once in 2002 and another time in 2015.