Border tensions with Costa Rica about the San Juan river would have to be settled.

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This week Nicaragua joined Costa Rica in asking it to help in their long-standing squabble over the use of the San Juan river.

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Another fire broke out Monday and burned three structures along a 5-mile stretch of the San Juan River in far northwestern New Mexico.

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They spent a week in late May in this remote area of southern Utah, rafting the San Juan River, camping on the soft banks and hiking the tributary canyons.

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Long before Panama was lopped from Colombia for the sake of the canal, Nicaragua was first choice for a coast-to-coast waterway, via, precisely, the San Juan river and the lake.

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And one of the many impediments to a long-mooted scheme to use the San Juan river for a second trans- ismithian canal is that it marks the frontier between Nicaragua and Costa Rica : efforts to patrol it frequently spark tension.

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We stole down some of the San Juan's narrowest veins, where the river felt more like a flooded forest and palm fronds hung low over their reflections.

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In 1848 the British invaded, renamed the port of San Juan as Greytown, and made a deal with Costa Ricans for use of the river.

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