Río Moramulca, Honduras (click here for the Honduras table of rivers)

river photo

Class: III+; Flow: 200-1500 cfs; Average Gradient: 6 m/km; Portages: no; Length: 11 km; Time: 1.52 hours

Season: June to October; rafts? no; Highlights: nice amount of III+; Crux move: rapids in basalt gorge

Put-In: Las Marias (167 m); Take-Out: Dam road bridge (105 m)

Description: (click here for general notes about my descriptions)

The Río Moramulca provides a nice variety of class III+ rapids in the Río Nacaome drainage. The PI road gets rougher the farther up you go, so your PI spot might depend on your vehicle. The following times and impressions are from a higher-than-average flow. From Las Marias the first 30 minutes are continuous III+, with the first rapid around a curve being an extra-long one. After that, you pass a braided and bushy rapid, and 5 minutes later, you encounter three bigger rapids dropping through black basalt bedrock.

A full description is in the Mayan Whitewater El Salvador, Honduras, & Nicaragua guidebook.

Descent History: I ran this in September 2017, with 1,200 cfs.