Sarstoon River

Sarstoon River (Río Sarstún)
Basin
Main source Guatemala
River mouth Caribbean Sea
15°53′51″N 88°54′49″W / 15.8976°N 88.9137°W / 15.8976; -88.9137 (Mouth of the Sarstoon River)
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Countries Guatemala, Belize

The Sarstoon River (Spanish: Río Sarstún) is a river in the Toledo District of Belize. It forms the country's southern boundary with Guatemala.

The river's sources are in neighbouring Guatemala. It flows through the Guatemalan departments of Alta Verapaz and Izabal into Belize and through Toledo to the Caribbean Sea.

The Sarstoon is the internationally accepted southern border between Belize and Guatemala, although as part of the Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute since 1999 Guatemala has claimed Belizean territory south of the Sibun River.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Lauterpacht, Elihu; Stephen Schwebel; Shabtai Rosenne; Francisco Orrego Vicuña (November 2001). "Legal Opinion on Guatemala’s Territorial Claim to Belize" (PDF). p. 7. Retrieved 10 November 2012.


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