RIVER
SYSTEM |
LENGTH
(miles to source of longest tributary, approx.) |
LENGTH
(km to source of longest tributary, approx.) |
DRAINAGE
AREA (sq. miles) |
DRAINAGE
AREA (1,000 sq. km) |
DISCHARGE
AT MOUTH (cu. meters per second) |
DISTINCTION
|
NOTABLE
TRIBUTARIES |
Altamaha
|
419 |
|
|
38 |
400 |
|
Oconee,
Ocmulgee |
Amazon
|
3,920 |
6,516 |
2,270,000 |
7,180 |
180,000 |
the
greatest flow , navigable for 2,000 miles |
Negro,
Tocantins |
Amu
Darya |
1,550 |
2,620 |
|
227 |
1,300 |
|
|
Amur
|
2,800 |
4,510 |
730,000 |
1,855 |
12,500 |
|
Sungari
|
Androscoggin
|
171 |
273.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
Apalachicola-
-Chattahoochee |
508 |
812.8 |
|
|
|
|
Flint
|
Brahmaputra
(Tsangpo) |
1,700 |
2,900 |
|
938 |
20,000 |
|
|
Brazos
|
800 |
1280 |
|
|
|
|
|
Cape
Fear |
202 |
323.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Churchill
|
1,000 |
1600 |
|
290 |
|
|
|
Colorado
|
1,450 |
3,200 |
|
629 |
168 |
cuts
Grand Canyon |
Gila,
Salt |
Colorado
|
970 |
1552 |
|
|
|
bears
same name as larger river to west |
|
Colorado
|
550 |
880 |
|
|
|
|
|
Columbia
|
1,210 |
2,250 |
|
669 |
6,650 |
|
Snake,
Willamette |
Congo
(Zaire) |
2,900 |
4,700 |
1,440,000 |
3,822 |
42,000 |
the
longest river flowing westward |
|
Connecticut
|
380 |
608 |
|
|
|
|
|
Danube
(Ister, Danarea, Dunav, Duna, Donau) |
1,750 |
2,850 |
320,000 |
805 |
6,450 |
|
Drava,
Tisa (Theiss), Sava, Pruth, Inn |
Daugava
(Zapadnaja Dvina, Duena) |
635 |
1,020 |
|
84 |
700 |
|
|
Delaware
|
315 |
504 |
|
|
|
provides
food for migrating birds |
Lehigh,
Schulkill |
Dnieper
|
1,420 |
2,850 |
|
503 |
1,660 |
|
Pripyat,
Pina, Desna |
Dniester
|
875 |
1400 |
|
|
|
|
|
Don
|
1,200 |
1,970 |
|
443 |
930 |
|
|
Douro
(Duero) |
475 |
776 |
|
98 |
650 |
|
|
Dvina
(Northern) |
465 |
1,302 |
|
360 |
3,560 |
|
|
Ebro
|
575 |
927 |
|
86 |
600 |
|
|
Elbe
|
725 |
1,165 |
|
144 |
750 |
|
Moldau,
Havel |
Fraser
|
850 |
1360 |
|
235 |
2,938 |
|
|
Gambia
|
600 |
960 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ganges
|
1,560 |
2,700 |
|
1,073 |
15,000 |
sacred
river of India |
Jumna,
Brahmaputra |
Garonne
|
400 |
650 |
|
56 |
680 |
|
|
Glomma
|
365 |
587 |
|
42 |
685 |
|
|
Godavari
|
900 |
1440 |
|
|
|
|
|
Göta
(with Klarälven) |
|
720 |
|
50 |
585 |
|
|
Guadalquivir
|
350 |
560 |
|
|
|
Name
from Arabic Wad-al-Kebir, "great river" |
|
Guadiana
|
500 |
800 |
|
|
|
|
|
Housatonic
|
130 |
208 |
|
|
|
|
|
Hudson
|
315 |
504 |
|
|
|
navigable
to beyond mountains |
Mohawk
|
Hwai
|
675 |
1080 |
|
|
|
|
|
Indigirka
|
1,100 |
1760 |
|
|
|
|
|
Indus
|
1,800 |
3,180 |
|
960 |
3,850 |
supported
prehistoric civilization |
Kabul,
Ravi |
Irrawaddy
|
1,000 |
2,150 |
|
431 |
14,000 |
|
|
James
|
340 |
544 |
|
|
|
|
|
Jordan
|
230 |
368 |
|
|
|
|
|
Kemi
|
345 |
494 |
|
51 |
525 |
|
|
Kennebec
|
164 |
262.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
Khatanga
|
715 |
1144 |
|
|
|
|
|
Kistna
|
800 |
1280 |
|
|
|
|
|
Klamath
|
270 |
432 |
|
|
|
|
|
Kolmya
|
1,500 |
2400 |
|
|
|
crosses
gold fields |
|
La
Grande |
|
|
|
|
3,389 |
|
|
Lena
|
2,700 |
4,270 |
961,000 |
2,490 |
16,400 |
|
|
Liao
|
900 |
1440 |
|
|
|
|
|
Loire
|
625 |
1,020 |
|
121 |
900 |
|
|
Lule
|
275 |
450 |
|
25 |
510 |
Dams
provide electricity to Sweden |
|
Mackenzie
|
2,640 |
4,250 |
697,000 |
1,805 |
7,500 |
9,856 |
|
Magdalena
|
1,000 |
1600 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mekong
|
2,500 |
4,500 |
|
795 |
15,900 |
|
|
Merrimack
|
110 |
176 |
|
|
|
|
|
Mezen
|
565 |
857 |
|
76 |
840 |
|
|
Mississippi-
-Missouri |
3,870 |
6,019 |
1,247,000 |
3,221 |
17,545 |
the
longest river flowing southward |
Yellowstone,
Platte, Ohio, Wabash , Cumberland, Tennessee, Arkansas, Canadian, Red |
Mobile-
-Tombigbee |
454 |
726.4 |
|
|
1,900 |
|
Alabama
|
Murray-
-Darling |
2,300 |
2,570 |
410,000 |
1,072 |
391 |
|
|
Narbada
|
800 |
1280 |
|
|
|
|
|
Nelson
|
400 |
640 |
|
1,093 |
2,633 |
|
Saskatchewan,
Assinibone |
Neva
|
46 |
74 |
|
281 |
2,530 |
|
|
Niemen
|
580 |
990 |
|
98 |
690 |
|
Viliya
|
Niger
|
2,600 |
4,030 |
850,000 |
2,092 |
5,700 |
|
|
Nile
|
4,180 |
6,484 |
1,170,000 |
2,881 |
1,584 |
Egyptian
agriculture depended on seasonal flooding. |
White
Nile, Blue Nile |
Ob'
|
3,459 |
5,570 |
1,154,000 |
2,975 |
12,600 |
25
miles wide at mouth |
Irtysh,
Tom |
Oder
|
562 |
912 |
|
119 |
580 |
|
Neisse
|
Ogeechee
|
250 |
400 |
|
|
|
|
|
Olenek
|
1,350 |
2160 |
|
|
|
|
|
Onega
|
250 |
405 |
|
58 |
575 |
|
|
Orange
|
1,300 |
2,250 |
|
|
|
|
Vaal
|
Orinoco
|
2,200 |
2,500 |
373,000 |
1,086 |
28,000 |
upper
river branches to form Casiquiare, to Negro, to Amazon |
|
Parnaíba
|
800 |
1280 |
|
|
|
|
|
Pechora
|
1,120 |
1,809 |
|
327 |
4,060 |
|
|
Pee
Dee |
435 |
696 |
|
|
|
|
Waccamaw,
Little Pee Dee, Lynches, Yadkin |
Penobscot
|
350 |
560 |
|
|
|
|
|
Po |
405 |
676 |
|
70 |
1,460 |
|
|
Raritan
|
75 |
120 |
|
|
|
|
|
Red
(Song Koi) |
750 |
800 |
|
|
3,900 |
|
Black
|
Rhine
|
820 |
1,360 |
|
224 |
2,200 |
commercially
most important river of Europe |
Main
|
Rhône
|
505 |
812 |
|
98 |
1,900 |
|
Saone
|
Río
de la Plata , Paraná , Uruguay |
2,795 |
4,700 |
1,197,000 |
2,650 |
19,500 |
|
Paraguay,
Pilcomayo |
Rio
Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) |
1,885 |
2,870 |
|
570
(350-930) |
82 |
waist-deep
at mouth |
Pecos
|
Roanoke
|
380 |
608 |
|
|
|
|
|
Saco
|
105 |
168 |
|
|
|
|
|
Sacramento
|
320 |
512 |
|
|
|
|
|
Saint
Lawrence |
2,350 |
3,100 |
|
1,030 |
10,400 |
follows
straight fault line , drains Great Lakes |
Rainy,
Maumee, Niagara, Ottawa, Richelieu, Saguenay |
Saltilla
|
|
|
|
9 |
85 |
|
|
Salween
(Saluen, Chiama Ngu Chu) |
1,750 |
3,200 |
|
280 |
1,500 |
|
|
San
Joaquin |
350 |
560 |
|
|
|
|
|
Santee
|
143 |
228.8 |
|
|
|
|
Wateree,
Catawba, Congaree, Saluda, Broad, Enoree, Tyger |
São
Francisco |
1,900 |
2,900 |
|
610 |
3,300 |
|
|
Savannah
|
314 |
502.4 |
|
29 |
360 |
|
|
Seine
|
482 |
776 |
|
79 |
500 |
|
|
Senegal
|
1,000 |
1600 |
|
|
|
|
|
Shannon
|
220 |
352 |
|
|
|
|
|
Shatt
el Arab , Euphrates , Tigris |
1,795 |
2,900 |
|
808 |
856 |
home
of ancient Mesopotamian civilization |
|
St.
John |
400 |
|
|
|
|
largest
river of New Brunswick |
|
St.
Johns |
280 |
448 |
|
|
|
largest
river of Florida |
|
St.
Mary's |
175 |
280 |
|
4 |
20 |
|
|
Susquehanna
|
450 |
720 |
|
|
|
Drowned
lower valley became Chesapeake Bay. |
|
Tagus
|
625 |
1000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Tarim-
-Khotan |
1,300 |
2,000 |
|
1,000 |
|
|
|
Thames
|
210 |
336 |
|
|
|
|
|
Tiber
|
251 |
401.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
Trinity
|
500 |
800 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ural
|
1,550 |
2,534 |
|
220 |
347 |
|
Orenburg,
Magnitogorsk |
Vistula
|
663 |
1,095 |
|
194 |
1,100 |
|
Bug
|
Volga
|
2,300 |
3,688 |
533,000 |
1,380 |
8,000 |
flows
to landlocked Caspian Sea |
Kama,
Vyatkai, Oka, Moskva |
Volta
|
1,000 |
1600 |
|
|
|
|
|
Waikato
|
264 |
425 |
|
|
|
longest
river in New Zealand |
Waipa,
Poutu |
Yalu
|
500 |
800 |
|
|
|
|
|
Yangtze
(Chang Jiang) |
3,900 |
5,800 |
698,000 |
1,970 |
35,000 |
the
lifeline of China |
|
Yellow
(Huang He) |
3,400 |
4,845 |
290,000 |
745 |
1,365 |
Silt
deposits have raised portions of river bed 70 ft. (20m) above
surrounding land. |
|
Yenisei-
-Angara |
3,440 |
5,550 |
996,000 |
2,605 |
19,600 |
drains
Lake Baikal |
|
Yukon
|
2,200 |
3,185 |
|
855 |
7,000 |
|
Tanana,
Porcupine |
Zambezi
|
2,200 |
2,660 |
548,000 |
1,330 |
2,500 |
flows
over Victoria Falls |
|