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• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

• Mackenzie River — River system, Northwest Territories, Canada. It flows northward from Great Slave Lake into the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean. Its basin, with an area of 697,000 sq mi (1,805,200 sq km), is the largest in Canada. It is 1,025 mi (1,650 km) long… …   Universalium

• Camú River — ▪ river, Dominican Republic       river in north central and northeastern Dominican Republic. Its headstreams rise in the Cordillera Central near La Vega. Other tributaries flow from the Cordillera Septentrional near Moca. The Camú, about 50… …   Universalium

• Colorado River — This article is about the river that flows through the Grand Canyon. For other rivers named Colorado, see Colorado River (disambiguation). Coordinates: 31°39′N 114°38′W / 31.65°N 1 …   Wikipedia

• Thamirabarani River — The Thamirabarani River (also spelt Tamaraparani and Tamiraparani) originates from a peak in hills of the Western Ghats above Papanasam in the Ambasamudram taluk and flows through the Tirunelveli Tuticorin district of the Tamil Nadu state of… …   Wikipedia

• Danube River — German Donau Slovak Dunaj Serbo Croatian and Bulgarian Dunav Romanian Dunarea Russian Dunay River, central Europe. The second longest European river (after the Volga), it rises in Germany s Black Forest and flows about 1,770 mi (2,850 km) to the… …   Universalium

• Luapula River — The Luapula River is a section of Africa s second longest river, the Congo. It is a transnational river forming for nearly all its length part of the border between Zambia and the DR Congo. It joins Lake Bangweulu (wholly in Zambia) to Lake Mweru …   Wikipedia

• Kafue River — s principal rivers, it is the most central and the most urban, and the longest and largest lying wholly within the country.Camerapix: Spectrum Guide to Zambia. Camerapix International Publishing, Nairobi, 1996.] Dimensions The Encyclopedia… …   Wikipedia

• Lerma River — The Lerma Santiago River (Río Lerma Santiago) is Mexico s second longest river. It is a 965 km long (603 mile long) river in west central Mexico that begins in Mexico s central plateau at an altitude over 3,000 meters above sea level, and ends… …   Wikipedia

• Pascagoula River — The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 mi (130 km) long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. The river drains an area of about 8,800 sq mi (23,000 km²) and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico.It is significant as… …   Wikipedia

• Devi River — An illustration of Mahanadi Koyakhai distributray system in Orissa, India draining into Bay of Bengal and Chilka lake. Picture not drawn to scale Devi river is one of the principal distributaries of Mahanadhi. It flows through Jagatsinghpur… …   Wikipedia