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Papagayo River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Papagayo River is a river in Guerrero state of southern Mexico. Its headwaters are in the Sierra Madre del Sur, and it drains southwards to empty into the Pacific Ocean southeast of the city of Acapulco. The natural vegetation varies with elevation. Pine–oak forest is the predominant at higher elevations in the upper watershed. tropical dry forest grows at middle and low elevations. Much of the original vegetation has been altered by human activity, and there are extensive areas of secondary vegetation, including woodland, shrubland, and savanna, as well as cropland, forest plantation, and livestock pasture.

Flows through: Mexico.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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