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	A DUST BOWL IN HONDURAS: CWS/ACT BEGIN RELIEF WORK AFTER MITCH
		From miles away, the dust obscures the mountains that overlook the Choluteca Valley; near the river, the dust sticks to the skin and grits in the teeth.
		Perhaps it is best explained by describing the Choluteca River, in southern Honduras.
		CHOLUTECA, HONDURAS, 29 November, 1998 -- To visit Choluteca, Honduras, a month after Hurricane Mitch is to see something of a scale that, as one person put it, cannot easily fit into a photograph, a reporter’s notebook, or one person`s consciousness.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/news111.html (445 words)

	MSF-USA: Special Report from MSF
		MSF was the first outside relief team to cross the semi-rehabilitated road between Tegucigalpa and Choluteca, a region on the delta of the Choluteca River.
		Its proximity to the Choluteca River worsened the damage caused by the hurricane when the river flooded.
		When MSF arrived, Choluteca was still partially flooded, as were other surrounding rural communities.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/reports/before1999/mitch_1998.cfm (2485 words)

	Honduras-Mitch
		The modelisation of the inundation scenario using DEM and the cartography maps of the floods impacts reveals that tectonic and hydraulic behaviour were responsible of the maintain of the Choluteca river to the west and its overflowed over its own dikes.In the southwest, abandonned former choluteca river beds are visibles.
		The flooded zones remains in the Choluteca riverbed and did not reach the main flood plain at south which is 25 m
		Tectonic movement and self embankment inside its own riverbed of the river explain that such floods outside the normal riverbed are exceptionnal but prove that potentially floodable area is much larger than what happened during Mith hurricane.
	earth.esa.int /applications/dm/GSP/honduras.htm (851 words)

	USGS Hurricane Mitch Program-Floodrisk Hazard Mapping
		The extent of flooding and the areas of damage to residential areas and transportation infrastructure during the Mitch flood are shown on this post Mitch,Open Skies aerial photo of the Choluteca River near Choluteca (the city of Choluteca is shown in the lower left of the photo).
		This method will be used on 2-3 river basins where there is sufficient precipitation and discharge data available for constructing a model that can produce results with a reasonable level of confidence.
		This photo taken in September of 1999 on the Ulua River near Potrerillos shows us that flooding problems have not gone away since Hurricane Mitch hit the country.
	mitchnts1.cr.usgs.gov /projects/floodhazard.html (851 words)

	History
		The winding Choluteca River connects the wide and fertile valleys of Honduras' central mountains with the southern mountains along the Pacific slope.
		When Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras last October (1998), the Choluteca River, engorged by the heavy rainfall, became a raging monster that took out Tegucigalpa's bridges, hospitals, factories and prisons.
		In the northeastern highlands of the department of Choluteca, it ripped out 60 houses in Duyure and destroyed the entire town of Morolica before descending upon Choluteca's capital.
	www.duyure.org /History.html (802 words)

	Off The Map - Store
		Mitch changed the course of the Choluteca River, and there is water where the access roads used to be...
		The most modern of all the bridges, The Choluteca Bridge survived intact but suffered perhaps the greatest indignity, the river moved right out from under it leaving its builders wondering what to do next.
		In addition to the loss of human life, 150 bridges were damaged or destroyed.
	www.off-the-map.org /store/bridge_to_nowhere_backgrounder.html (585 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 11/30/1998
		Along the Choluteca river in the southern part of the country, teams have donated drugs to six health centers in the municipalities of Choluteca, Oroquina, and Apasilagua.
		Along the Aguan river in the northern part of the country, we have donated drugs, water tanks, and fuel to the hospitals and clinics in the municipalities of Yoro, Yorito, Sulaco, and Victoria.
		Honduras: MSF continues to deliver medical and relief supplies to the most affected regions of Honduras, including Atlantida, Colon, Cortes, Choluteca, Morazan, Yoro, and Santa Barbara.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/before1999/11-30-1998.cfm (685 words)

	History
		The winding Choluteca River connects the wide and fertile valleys of Honduras' central mountains with the southern mountains along the Pacific slope.
		On October 31st, during the hurricane, three commissions of community leaders were dispatched to three satellite villages (San Lorenzo, Apasupo, and Liraqui) in the municipality of Duyure, located along the banks of the Choluteca River.
		In the northeastern highlands of the department of Choluteca, it ripped out 60 houses in Duyure and destroyed the entire town of Morolica before descending upon Choluteca's capital.
	www.duyure.org /History.html (802 words)

	Description of Choluteca
		Topography: The Choluteca research area is in the low, coastal, estuarine environment of several major rivers and numerous embayments around the periphery of the Gulf of Fonseca.
		Quality of water is highly variable, depending on the specific source used (gulf embayment, Choluteca River, or riverine estuaries) and on the season.
		General Description: Research in the Choluteca area is conducted at selected estuarine sampling sites and on selected collaborating shrimp farms around the periphery of the Gulf of Fonseca.
	pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu /who_we_are/hond/chol/chol_desc.html (631 words)

	HONDURAN INTERNATIONAL DONOR HIGHLIGHTS
		In the Dark: Residents of a recently inaugurated Norwegian-funded housing project in Choluteca Department complain that the Honduran National Electric Company (ENEE) is not supplying electricity to the houses.
		The Swedish firm Skanska is involved to two other bridge projects: one over the Bonito River in La Ceiba, Atlantida Department, and the 90 meter Yarumuela bridge in the southwestern department of La Paz, on the Salvadoran border.
		In addition, Skanska has said that it will not turn over the Saopin bridge over the Cangrejal river in La Ceiba, Atlantida department, until the municipality fulfills its obligation to pave the road leading to the bridge.
	www.usmission.hn /mission/sections/eco_05.htm (1922 words)

	Argentina - General Information.
		The largest plain, that of the Choluteca River in the Choluteca department (administrative district), has rich soils that support many farms and cattle ranches.
		The most important banana areas are the fertile Ulua-Chamelecon River Basin and the coastal plain near the port of Tela.
		There is some farming in the Aguan Valley and other river valleys.
	www.premium-spain.co.uk /Honduras/The_Land.htm (1922 words)

	nwind31.htm
		Flood damage along the Choluteca River caused by Hurricane Mitch.
	www.photolib.noaa.gov /historic/nws/nwind31.htm (1734 words)

	Loss of bridges hinders Mitch relief
		Mitch changed the course of the Choluteca River, and there is water where the access roads used to be.
		CHOLUTECA, Honduras, Nov. 16, 1998 - The graceful arches of the New Choluteca Bridge stand abandoned, a white concrete sculpture far from shore, linking nothing to nowhere.
		The Choluteca bridge itself is perfect, the Japanese engineers said - except that it now straddles dry land.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/1998/wmbridge.htm (752 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Honduran Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Across the Choluteca River lies ComayagUela, the more modern but less affluent section; the city's population has expanded greatly there in the last few decades.
		Founded late in the 16th cent., Tegucigalpa was a colonial center of silver and gold mining.
		Old Tegucigalpa, built on a steep hill, retains many quaint colonial aspects, with narrow streets and sidewalks, overhanging balconies, and stair-stepped streets.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Teguciga.html (260 words)

	Duyure
		The municipality is bordered by the Río Choluteca to the north and west, the national border with Nicaragua to the east, and the municipality of San Marcos de Colón to the south.
		The capital city of the department is the city of Choluteca, centrally located, and at an altitude of 100 feet.
		Using the tipping-bucket rain gauge positioned in the foothills of Cerro Guanacáure in the mountain highlands in the department of Choluteca - in an area of particularly extensive flooding and landslides - the researchers found that the rainfall was substantially less than a determined maximum potential rainfall curve.
	www.duyure.org /hmitch.htm (4608 words)

	Peace Corps Online June 3, 2003 - Santa Cruz Sentinel: Nicaragua RPCV Max Boykoff establishes non-profit to sell coffee
		It is an isolated community in southern Honduras, bordered by the Choluteca River to the north and west, the border with Nicaragua to the east, and the municipality of San Marcos de Colon to the south.
		Duyure (pronounced doo-you-ray) is an agriculturally based municipality of 2,500 people in the department of Choluteca.
		This group's purpose is to provide charitable aid and assistance to the citizens of Duyure, in the departmentof Choluteca, Honduras.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/2013978.html (1104 words)

	Pesticides Contaminate Flooded Honduran River
		An undetermined quantity of pesticides and other toxic material from chemical and agro-chemical production plants were spilled into the river as a result of the floods provoked by Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America with devastating effect in the last week of October.
		One medical team working in the affected zone treated more than 30 cases of poisoning in the municipality of Marcovia, Department of Choluteca.
		About 360,000 persons live in the Department of Choluteca.
	www.chem.unep.ch /pops/POPs_Inc/press_releases/ens01.htm (379 words)

	DEA - Publications - The Supply of Illicit Drugs to the United States - 96
		This was illustrated in 1996 with the seizure of three cocaine shipments from tractor-trailers at the El Guasaule, Choluteca Department, a port of entry on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border.
		As in previous years, cultivation was located in the Upper, Central, and Lower Huallaga Valleys; the Apurimac and Aguaytia River Valleys; and in the Department of Cuzco.
		These vessels departed the North Coast of Colombia, hugged the Venezuelan coast, and either proceeded directly to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, or Haiti, or kept close to the coasts of the eastern Caribbean islands until they reached their final destinations.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/dearep.htm (21595 words)

	ADDITIONS TO THE AVIFAUNA OF HONDURAS
		Previous records in Hon- duras are from Arenal, the Patuca River, the Segovia River, Nueva Choluteca, and Aguas Calientes.
		In the Platano River Biosphere Re- serve, groups of a dozen or more individuals were frequently seen feeding on the fruits of riverside Cecropia trees and in second-growth or disturbed forest habitats.
		While foraging at the fringes of a mixed-species flock in the canopy of primary forest, a ma!e was observed at !ength on 12 November 1980 a!ong the Tus- kruhuas River.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v100n03/p0621-p0629.html (8947 words)

	CURRENT EVENTS UPDATE - SPRING 1999
		When the rampage spread to the Choluteca River, which runs through the capital of Tegucigalpa, much of Honduras was submerged.
		In Honduras, it overwhelmed two large rivers, the Ulua and Chamelecon, near the country's second largest city, San Pedro Sula.
		That turned San Pedro and the Ulua Valley into a churning, 200-sq-km lake and ruined most of the nation's crucial banana crop.
	www.time.com /time/teach/current/p23.html (8947 words)

	ADRC DisasterReport
		The level of the main rivers (Ulua, Chamelecon, Choluteca and Grande) continues to rise progressively but fluctuates constantly depending on precipitation levels and dam discharges.
		The El CajûÏ dam in Northern Honduras is releasing 1,405m3 per second, which is causing flooding in the Ulua river basin.
		This will raise the level of the Ulua river deteriorating the situation in particular in the Sula Valley.
	www.adrc.or.jp /adrc_t/view_disaster_en.php?lang=en&KEY=72 (8947 words)

	ECO-Briefs
		TEGUCIGALPA - Eleven towns in the Honduran department of Choluteca, on the southern border with Nicaragua, have organized to protect the watershed of the Choluteca River, which supplies the communities with water.
		Olman Rivera, coordinator of the project, told Tierramérica that pesticide use on farmland, and the seeping of saltwater from the Gulf of Fonseca into aquifers ''contaminate the freshwater and have forced us to take preventative measures.''
	www.tierramerica.net /english/2004/1113/iecobreves.shtml (857 words)

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	www.gcrio.org /CSP/IR/centrameTab1andTab3.html (120 words)

	Honduras must do its hurricane homework on time
		The Ministry of Education lost a building during the hurricane as the bloated Choluteca River, which snakes through downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras' capital, ate it up.
		"Look at Fifi and see what happened thereafter; there was some river channeling and international donors pumped in a bunch of money, but the issues are social and economic.
		So they built another one in the flood zone close to the river.
	www.marrder.com /htw/special/environment/70.htm (1590 words)

	USGS Hurricane Mitch Program-Streamgage Networks
		This gage is upstream from the City of Choluteca in southern Honduras the Mayor of Choluteca monitored gage data via the Internet during flooding of September 1999.
		Water management authorities have identified an alert level (shown in red), which indicates the river level at which areas downstream are at risk for flooding.
		Each stream gage will be equipped with rainfall gage and satellite telemetry for near-real time transmission of hydrologic data that will be accessible via the Internet.
	mitchnts1.cr.usgs.gov /projects/streamgage.html (1590 words)

	DTCA598.HTML
		Every day, Diaz, 41, comes downtown to survey the damage in central Tegucigalpa -- to look at the waters of the swollen Choluteca River and to check progress at the electrical store where he works, which is expected to be closed through early next year as workers make repairs.
		A long-time resident of the southern Honduran community of Marcovia, near the city of Choluteca, Matamoros has moved all of her belongings outside under a tarp, not far from damaged melon and corn fields.
		It is a frustrating, uncertain, wearying moment for Hondurans, and Diaz's lament is common as the initial shock of Hurricane Mitch wears off and the enormous task of rebuilding and reconstruction begins.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_1997-99/DTCA598.HTML (1309 words)

	HONDURAN INTERNATIONAL DONOR HIGHLIGHTS
		The Swedish firm Skanska is involved to two other bridge projects: one over the Bonito River in La Ceiba, Atlantida Department, and the 90 meter Yarumuela bridge in the southwestern department of La Paz, on the Salvadoran border.
		In the Dark: Residents of a recently inaugurated Norwegian-funded housing project in Choluteca Department complain that the Honduran National Electric Company (ENEE) is not supplying electricity to the houses.
		In addition, Skanska has said that it will not turn over the Saopin bridge over the Cangrejal river in La Ceiba, Atlantida department, until the municipality fulfills its obligation to pave the road leading to the bridge.
	www.usmission.hn /mission/sections/eco_05.htm (1922 words)

	CCD Photos - Representatives from partner organizations
		destruction along the Choluteca River in the southern Honduran city of
		Helin and Skaaland flew to Choluteca while investigating the
		Nissen flew there on 13 November 1998 while investigating the
	www.gbgm-umc.org /honduras/ccd/photos/partners.html (356 words)

	Honduras Departments
		Choluteca corresponded roughly to modern Choluteca and Valle; Comayagua, to Comayagua and La Paz; Gracias, to Copán, Intibucá, Lempira, and Ocotepeque; Olancho, to Olancho; Santa Bárbara, to Cortés and Santa Bárbara; Tegucigalpa, to El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán; and Yoro, to Atlántida, Colón, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, and Yoro.
		1934-06-07: Ocotepeque, the capital of Ocotepeque department, destroyed when the Márchala River flooded.
		A new city, Nueva Ocotepeque, was built five km.
	www.statoids.com /uhn.html (588 words)

	Off The Map - Store
		The most modern of all the bridges, The Choluteca Bridge survived intact but suffered perhaps the greatest indignity, the river moved right out from under it leaving its builders wondering what to do next.
		In November 1998, Hurricane Mitch ravaged the Honduras.
		In addition to the loss of human life, 150 bridges were damaged or destroyed.
	off-the-map.org /store/digital_downloads_store.html (591 words)

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