Goascorán River

{{Short description|River in Honduras and El salvador}}

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| name = Goascorán River

| name_native = {{native name|es|Río Goascorán}}

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| image_caption = Goascarán river on the Salvadoran border

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| length_km = 130

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| source1_location = La Paz (Honduras), Honduras

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| mouth = Pacific Ocean

| mouth_location = El Salvador, Honduras

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The Goascorán River or Río Goascorán is a river in Central America. It rises in the La Sierra mountain ridge in Honduras and flows southward along the El Salvador-Honduras border for about 75 miles (120 km). It courses past Goascorán city to La Unión Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Fonseca.