According to FAO, the Choluteca River is 349 kilometres (217 mi) long from source to mouth.

There are no dams built along the main course of the river to leave it to its natural health[citation needed].

It washed out entire neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa, and eventually swelled to six times its normal size in Choluteca.

Further down it also devastated the tiny Morolica, destroying the entire hamlet, requiring the town to be rebuilt three miles upriver.

[2] The hurricane also rerouted the river, which was no longer flowing beneath the New Choluteca Bridge.