Rivers

Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

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Madeira

Water bodies; Rivers

A major waterway in South America, approximately 3,250 km (2,020) miles long. The Madeira is the biggest tributary of the Amazon, both by volume and length, and it is the biggest tributary of any ...

A tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 63,166 km2 (24,389 sq mi), and the mean discharge is 8,400 m³/s. It flows in a generally northeasterly direction through the ...

Volga

Water bodies; Rivers

The largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. It rises in the Valdai Hills northwest ...

Murray

Water bodies; Rivers

The river drains one-seventh of the Australian land mass, and is currently by far the most significant agricultural area in Australia. It spans most of the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and ...

Missouri

Water bodies; Rivers

A major river of central North America, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river on the continent at over 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and the second largest tributary of the ...

Paraná

Water bodies; Rivers

A river of South America, the second longest after the Amazon, rising on the plateau of southeast-central Brazil and flowing generally south to the point where, after a course of 3,032 miles (4,880 ...

Yenisey

Water bodies; Rivers

Also spelled Yenisei or Enisei, Evenk Ioanesi ("Great River"), River, central Russia is one of the longest rivers in Asia, it rises in the borderland of south-central Russia and Mongolia and flows ...