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The Rio Negro is a major tributary of the Amazon and one of the world's largest blackwater rivers. Its dark, typically acidic water contains dissolved organic matter and tannins from vegetation in the surrounding forests, rather than sediment causing the color. The river flows through northwestern B...

The Tapajós is a major tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil, formed by waterways that descend from central Brazil and flowing generally northward for about 1,900 kilometers. It runs through the states of Mato Grosso and Pará before entering the Amazon near Santarém. The river and its basin are as...

The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. It flows for about 3,700 kilometers from the Rocky Mountains across the Great Plains, passing through or along several states before joining the Mississippi north of St. Louis. The rive...

The Blue Nile is a major river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flowing roughly 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) to its confluence with the White Nile in Sudan. Along its route, it traverses deep canyons and highlands, dropping significantly in elevation before reaching the lowlands and merging...

The Xingu is a major right-bank tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It flows north through the states of Mato Grosso and Pará before joining the Amazon, and its basin contains rainforest, Indigenous territories, and areas affected by infrastructure and agriculture. The Belo Monte hydroelectric...

The Angara is a Siberian river that forms the sole outflow of Lake Baikal. It flows generally north and west from the lake through the Irkutsk region and joins the Yenisei River near Strelka, contributing to the larger Yenisei basin. The Angara is notable for its connection to Baikal’s unique freshw...

The Moselle is a river in western Europe and a left-bank tributary of the Rhine. It rises in the Vosges Mountains of northeastern France, flows through France and Luxembourg, then continues through western Germany before joining the Rhine at Koblenz. The river is navigable along much of its lower co...

The White Nile is a major tributary of the Nile River, one of two principal branches that join to form the main Nile at Khartoum, Sudan, the other being the Blue Nile. The White Nile is longer than the Blue Nile but carries a lower volume of water; it originates from the African Great Lakes region,...

The Chambal is a major river of central India and a tributary of the Yamuna. It rises in the Vindhya Range, flows through Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and joins the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh. The river is known for the deeply eroded badland ravines along parts of its course, while the National Chamba...

The Purús River is a major right-bank tributary of the Amazon that rises in Peru and flows east through the Brazilian Amazon before joining the Solimões River in Amazonas state. The river extends for roughly 3,200 kilometers and has a highly meandering course, broad seasonal floodplain, and connecti...

The Ohio River begins at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet, and flows about 981 miles, or 1,579 kilometers, to the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois. It forms or helps define boundaries involving Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ill...

The Sava is a river in Central and Southeast Europe that runs approximately 990 kilometers. It begins in Slovenia, continues through Croatia and along parts of the Bosnia and Herzegovina border, then flows through Serbia before joining the Danube in Belgrade. It is the Danube's longest tributary and...

The Sutlej, also spelled Satluj, is one of the five major rivers of the Punjab and a major tributary of the Indus. It rises near Lake Rakshastal in the Tibet Autonomous Region, flows through Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in India, and continues through Pakistan before joining the Chenab at the Panjnad...

The Kasai River is a major tributary of the Congo River, extending for about 2,153 kilometers through Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its upper course includes sections along the Angola-DRC border before the river continues through the Congo Basin and joins the Congo River near Kwam...

The Swat River is a perennial river in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It rises in the Hindu Kush around the upper Swat Valley, flows through Swat, Lower Dir, and Malakand districts, and joins the Kabul River in or near Charsadda. The river is fed by snowmelt and rainfall, and its water supports irrig...

The Yalong River is a major river in western China and a tributary of the Jinsha River, the upper course of the Yangtze. It flows through Sichuan and joins the Jinsha near Panzhihua, with a long, deeply incised valley that has been developed for hydropower. The Jinping-I Hydropower Station is built...

The Chenab is a major river of the Indus system, formed at Tandi in Himachal Pradesh by the confluence of the Chandra and Bhaga rivers. It flows through the Jammu region of India and then across the plains of Punjab in Pakistan, where its waters ultimately become part of the Panjnad before entering...

The Kama is a major river of European Russia and the longest left-bank tributary of the Volga, with a length of about 1,805 kilometers. It rises near Kuliga in the Udmurt Republic, flows through Perm Krai and Tatarstan, and enters the Volga system in the Kuybyshev Reservoir south of Kazan. Its basin...

The Tisza is a major river of Central and Eastern Europe and the longest tributary of the Danube, measuring about 966 kilometers. Its basin is shared by Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia, while the river itself flows through or along several of those countries before joining the Danube...

The Jhelum is a river of the Indus basin that rises at the Verinag spring in the Kashmir Valley and flows through Jammu and Kashmir before entering Pakistan. It passes through Wular Lake and forms part of the river system that joins the Chenab, ultimately reaching the Indus through the Panjnad. The...

Ghaghara is a transboundary river of the Himalayan region. It rises in Tibet, flows through Nepal under the name Karnali, then continues through northern India before joining the Ganges in Bihar. It is a major left-bank tributary of the Ganges and carries Himalayan and monsoon runoff, making its bas...

The Yamuna is a major river of northern India and a major tributary of the Ganges, flowing about 1,376 kilometers from the Yamunotri area in Uttarakhand. It passes near or through Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Ganges at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj. The river has religious...

The Ubangi is a major river of Central Africa and the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River. It begins where the Mbomou and Uele rivers meet, then flows west and south, forming sections of the border between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and later be...

The Tennessee River is a major river of the southeastern United States and the largest tributary of the Ohio River by drainage basin. It begins near Knoxville, where the French Broad and Holston rivers meet, then winds through Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky before entering the Ohio near Paducah. T...

The Aldan is a river in the Sakha Republic of eastern Siberia, Russia, and a right-bank tributary of the Lena. It is about 2,273 kilometers long, rises on the northern side of the Stanovoy Range, crosses the Aldan Highlands, and joins the Lena downstream from Yakutsk. Its basin includes gold deposit...

The Irtysh is a major river of Central and northern Asia, extending approximately 4,248 kilometres when measured from its headwaters. It rises in the Altai region of China, crosses Kazakhstan, and continues into Russia, where it joins the Ob River in western Siberia. The river supports cities includ...

The Vitim is a major river of eastern Siberia and a right-bank tributary of the Lena. Including its headwater Vitimkan, it is about 1,978 kilometers long; it rises in the Transbaikal region, crosses remote mountainous and upland terrain, and joins the Lena near the settlement of Vitim. The river dra...

The Saône is a river in eastern France that rises near Vioménil in the Vosges and flows south for about 480 kilometers. It passes through or near Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon before joining the Rhône at Lyon. The river is navigable for much of its lower course and is an important waterway for inland f...

The Luangwa River is a major perennial watercourse in eastern Zambia, extending approximately 800 kilometers before joining the Zambezi River. It is recognized as one of the longest undammed rivers in Africa, allowing it to naturally flood its banks and sustain a dense riparian ecosystem. The river...