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Rivers
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.
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Chenab River
Water bodies; Rivers
The Chenab River is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir and the Punjab in India. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows through the ...
Essequibo River
Water bodies; Rivers
The Esequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north ...
Khopyor River
Water bodies; Rivers
Khopyor is a river in European Russia, the biggest left tributary of the Don River. Length 979 km, watershed: 61,100 km2,mouth width: 300m.Navigable up to 323 km. Maximum discharge is 3720 m3/s, an ...
Tagus
Water bodies; Rivers
The Tagus (is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 1,038 kilometres long, 716 km in Spain, 47 km along the border between Portugal and Spain and 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into ...
Daugava River
Water bodies; Rivers
The River Daugava is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The total length of ...
Gila River
Water bodies; Rivers
The Gila River is a 649-mile (1,044 km)tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of nearly 60,000 square miles ...
Loire
Water bodies; Rivers
The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of 1,012 kilometres (629 mi), it drains an area of 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), which represents more than a fifth of France's land area.
