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The Lempa River (Spanish: Río Lempa) is a 422-kilometre-long (262 mi) river in Central America. [2] It is a transboundary river shared by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. [ 3 ]
Table 2 shows the largest rivers in Ireland (by mean flow) in cubic metres per second. Some of the larger or better-known rivers of Ireland are shown on this map (large version). The longest river in Ireland is the River Shannon, at 360.5 kilometres (224.0 mi). The river develops into three lakes along its course, Lough Allen, Lough Ree and ...
TABLE 1. a. The length of the River Shannon from the Shannon Pot to Limerick City is 258 kilometres (160 mi) [10] with a basin area of 11,700 km 2.; The River Shannon's overall length (to Loop Head), using the Owenmore River (County Cavan) as source, is 372 kilometres (231 mi), [11] 11 km (7 mi) longer than the Shannon Pot source.
The reservoir's primary inflows are the Acelhuate River and the Lempa River. Its primary outflow is the Lempa River, which flows northwest to southeast. [2] [4] The reservoir has a surface area of 135 square kilometers (52 square miles), making it the largest body of water in the country.
The Lempa River watershed dominates El Salvador covering half of the country at 10, 255 km 2 and draining 6, 214 million m 3. The Lempa is 422 km long and originates in the Sierra Madre and the Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala. The river flows in Honduras for 31 km before entering El Salvador in northwest.
The following rivers flow into the Grijalva River in Mexico and are part of the Gulf of Mexico drainage basin. Grijalva River (Mexico) Usumacinta River (Guatemala and Mexico) San Pedro River (Guatemala and Mexico) Lacantún River (Mexico) Xalbal River (Xaclbal River) Ixcán River; Pasión River (Río de la Pasión) San Juan River. Poxte River ...
The Cerrón Grande Hydroelectric Dam (Spanish: Central Hidroeléctrica Cerrón Grande) spans the Lempa River 78 km (48 mi) north of San Salvador in the municipalities of Potonico, (Chalatenango) and Jutiapa in El Salvador. The concrete gravity dam has a height of 90 m (300 ft) and a length of 800 m (2,600 ft).
Opponents of the project pointed to various drawbacks of the proposed project, but the issue at hand was the consequences that the dam would have had on the water flow of the Lempa River. The river already has four hydroelectric dams and represents some of the scarce water resources of the country. The Lempa River is the only river that can be ...