Río San Ramón, Upper & Lower, Honduras (click here for the Honduras table of rivers)

Class: III+, III; Flow: 150-1,000 cfs; Average Gradient: 11 m/km Upper, 4 m/km Lower; Portages: no; Length: 10 + 9 km; Time: 2 + 1 hours

Season: June to October; rafts? lower; Highlights: some play waves; Crux move: catching the water

Put-In: Los Jobos (210 m) or desvio bridge (102 m); Take-Out: "Río Chiquito" highway bridge (63 m)

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

The Río San Ramón can provide a quick diversion if you happen to be in the Pespire area when the water is up. The aesthetics suffer somewhat from riverside farming, flood-ravaged riverbanks, and trash. The quick-access Lower, starting at the desvio bridge, has some decent play and is raftable with higher water, though is not very continuous. The Upper is more continuous but still mostly III with a few III+'s, the first one about 25 minutes down from the PI. A nice boat-scoutable bedrock gorge appears 10 minutes later.

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

Descent History: I ran this in October 2018 with Tom van Rijs and Sawyer Ballew, with 125 cfs at the PI and 900 cfs at the TO.