A-Z Rivers

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Try to post at least one interesting fact about the river.

Apurimac

Source of the Amazon River system, the Apurimac's source is less than 160 km from the Pacific coast although it flows towards the Atlantic. Is 730 km long and flows through very deep gorges.

Brahmaputra

Originating in the Himalayas of Tibet, the Brahmaputra is one of the primary rivers of eastern India and Bangladesh. Along with the Ganges, it forms the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest river delta in the world.

Cherwell
Partially navigable tributary of the Thames, joining it at Oxford.

Dneiper (Ukraine)

Elbe

Starts in Czech Republic and flows northward to tne North Sea. It is a major waterway flowing through Germany.

Fraser

The longest river in British Columbia, and one of Metro Vancouver's most vital waterways. In recent years, several detached human feet in tennis shoes have washed up on beaches as far south as Tacoma, Washington. It is now believed that the source of the feet is this river. According to the popular theory, the feet belonged to people who committed suicide by jumping off the Alex Fraser Bridge, between Richmond and Delta. After a period of decomposition, the feet would rise to the surface, carried by the buoyancy of the shoes, and float out on currents toward the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound.

How macabre!

Ganges

A river sacred to Hinduism, it is the most heavily populated river basin in the world and India's longest river. It's also one of the 5 most polluted rivers in the world which is a bad thing because millions of people are dependent on the Ganges for daily living. Despite the pollution, many folk believe the waters to purify their sins when they bathe in it.

Halys.

Famous river in Antiquity, traditionally the boundary between Asia Minor and the rest of Asia.

Irrawaddy

Biggest river in Burma, it flows southwards into the Andaman Sea. The Irrawaddy Dolphin is found in the lower reaches of the river. Once on this river, a battle between a crocodile and a tiger was observed, resulting in the crocodile devouring the tiger.

Jordan

The river where Jesus was baptised in the New Testament, the Jordan River forms the eastern boundary of northern Israel and the West Bank. While parts of the river have been preserved for baptisms, the region between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea is greatly endangered by human activity-- political conflicts, damming and pollution, combined with the natural high rate of evaporation, have resulted in some sections drying up into salt flats and the entire natural ecosystem being disrupted.

Kiamichi

A tributary of the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma. No one is certain of the name's etymology.

Limpopo

African river flowing into the Indian Ocean, and forming the border between South Africa and Botswana, and South Africa and Zimbabwe before flowing through Mocambique to join the ocean near Xai-Xai.

Mississippi.

Getting control of this river helped the US prosper after Napoleon sold Jefferson the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Nile

The most important river in ancient times, world's longest river and the lifeline of Egypt, the capital city of Cairo is built on it. During the building of the Aswan Dam, 22 ancient temples and monumnts, such as the Abu Simbel temple, had to be moved.

Ohio.

Major river in Eastern US starting in Pittsburgh and flows into the Mississippi River.

Plata

Officially named Rio de la Plata ("River of Silver") in Spanish, and also known as River Plate in English. After the Amazon, the Rio de la Plata is the second largest drainage basin in South America. With the Argentinian and Uruguayan capital cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, respectively, situated along its banks, it is also one of the most densely populated areas on the continent.