Punta Gorda River
The Punta Gorda River (Rio Punta Gorda) is a river in eastern Nicaragua. It originates in the Caribbean highland and flows east to enter the Caribbean Sea at Punta Gorda. Part of the river's drainage area is the protected Punta Gorda Natural Reserve.
The upper river valley is scheduled to be dammed to create the Atlanta reservoir for the Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project, the Nicaraguan Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The canal will be built in the Punta Gorda valley.[1]
Hurricane Felix made landfall at Punta Gorda in 2007.
Popular Culture
- W. Douglas Burden describes Punta Gorda in his Look to the Wilderness.[2]
References
- ^ Project description by HKND (Archived 2015-01-10 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Burden, W. Douglas (1956). Look to the Wilderness. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 197–245.
11°30′32″N 83°46′26″W / 11.509°N 83.774°W