• The Polochic River (Spanish pronunciation: [poloˈtʃik]) is a 194-kilometre-long (121 mi) river in eastern Guatemala. The 194 kilometers long river flows...
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    west along Río Samilhá path until it merges river Matanzas, (d) from here going north along River Matanzas path until it merges Río Polochic, (e) going...
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    last years of his life in the Polochic River valley which inspired him his famous fox-blues Río Polochic. Río Polochic, fox-blues Ruiseñor Verapaz, capriccio...
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    ’ A further campaign or entrada founded Nueva Sevilla in 1543 on the Río Polochic; it grew to 60 vecinos but the Dominicans protested the settlement, such...
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  • Panzos, which, after surmounting the divide, strikes the source of the Rio Polochic, and follows its banks to the eastward." Around the time that Maudslay...
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    Semuc Champey and Santa María Cahabón below which it joins the smaller Polochic River. The Cahabón has whitewater reaches, with Class III and IV rapids...
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  • 04237.x. White, RA (1985). "The Guatemala earthquake of 1816 on the Chixoy-Polochic fault". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 75 (2): 455–73...
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    (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 lake, which is...
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    the Polochic and the Sarstoon rivers. A third, the Sierra de las Minas, or its eastern portion, Sierra del Mico, stretches between the Polochic and the...
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    Izabal Polochic River Matanzas River Cahabón River Lanquin River Motagua River (Guatemala and Honduras) Las Animas River Bobos River Pasabien River Río Grande...
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    further, by the Motagua–Polochic Faults to the south-southeast, and by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the west. The Motagua–Polochic Faults divide the Maya...
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  • 800 Punta de Manabique 132,900 328,000 Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic 21,227 52,450 Reserva de Usos Múltiples Río Sarstún 35,202 86,990...
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  • processing. Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the valley of the Polochic River was inhabited since ancient times by k'ekchí and P'okomchi people...
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    Fault to the north, the Rio Hondo, Yucatán Channel, and Maya Mountain Faults to the east, and a portion of the Motagua–Polochic Fault Zone to the south...
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    Block of the Caribbean Plate. The Region notably houses the active Motagua–Polochic Fault Zone in the south, part of the Central American Volcanic Front in...
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    Quebec Seismic Zone United States Caribbean and Mexico Cayman Trough Chixoy-Polochic Fault Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (Cuba) Gulf of California Rift...
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    the Pacific vertient, larger and deeper, such as the Polochic which drains in Lake Izabal, Río Dulce, Motagua and Sarstún that forms the boundary with...
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  • Silvestre Bocas del Polochic Izabal 15°25′N 89°22′W / 15.417°N 89.367°W / 15.417; -89.367 (Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic) 212.27 20 March...
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    cluster of sulfate-bearing springs that dot the active trace of the Chixoy Polochic fault, 2 km south of the lake in the chixoy river valley, where they form...
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  • the Lake Izabal. It is 15–30 km wide and bordered by the valleys of the Polochic River in the north and the Motagua River in the south. Its western border...
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    from farms (fincas) controlled mainly by Germans to the port of Panzós on Polochic River, which merged to Lago de Izabal and the Caribbean Sea. The company...
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    Cambranes Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the valley of the Polochic River had been inhabited since ancient times by k'ekchí and P'okomchi people...
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  • 132,900 ha Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic Izabal: 21,227 ha Reserva de Usos Múltiples Río Sarstún Izabal: 35,202 ha (Source: Ramsar 2009)...
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    Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico drainage basins. These rivers include the Polochic and Dulce Rivers, which drain into Lake Izabal, the Motagua River, the...
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  • Caribbean Plate. The Chortis Block is bounded on the north by the Motagua-Polochic Fault Zone in Guatemala. The valley of the Motagua River, which follows...
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  • 800 Maya-Q'eqchi families were forcibly removed from their homes in the Polochic River region. The Widmann Lagardes family claimed that they owned the land...
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  • sustainability of the metabolic patterns of Mayan-Q'eqchi' peasant households: the Polochic Valley, Guatemala". Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics...
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  • Castellanos Cambranes Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the Polochic River Valley has been inhabited since ancient times by the K'ekchí and...
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    engaged in battle with the Maya natives at the city of Chacujal, on the Polochic River. He seized plentiful supplies of food from the city and sent supplies...
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