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San Juan River (Veracruz)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The San Juan River is a river of Veracruz state in eastern Mexico. It is a tributary of the Papaloapan River. The San Juan River is formed by the confluence of the Lalana and Trinidad rivers, whose headwaters are in the Sierra de Villa Alta sub-range of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca. The San Juan flows northeastwards before turning northwestwards. It receives the Hueyapan River, which drains the southwestern slopes of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, before emptying into the lower Papaloapan. "Atlas of Mexico – River Basins (Map from book)". lib.utexas.edu. 1975. Archived from the original on 2011-11-07. The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.

Flows through: Mexico.

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

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