Lempa
Americannoun
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The Salvadoran capital's untreated waste is also swept up by the Acelhuate River before reaching the Lempa, piling in even more garbage.
From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2022
The reservoir's mounting trash comes from the Lempa River, which flows from the Guatemalan highlands via neighboring Honduras, before settling in Cerron Grande, located at the foot of El Salvador's biggest hydroelectric dam.
From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2022
These lowlands flood almost annually when the Lempa overflows and spills across agrarian communities like the one where Domínguez grew up.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022
The region is known as Bajo Lempa, the alluvial plains southeast of the capital near where the Lempa river empties into the Pacific Ocean.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022
A small village named Mazahuat also lies farther south and inland on the Lempa river, in San Salvador.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
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