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The Rhine is the longest river in Germany. It is here that the Rhine encounters some more of its main tributaries, such as the Neckar, the Main and, later, the Moselle, which contributes an average discharge of more than 300 m 3 /s (11,000 cu ft/s).
Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.
The river begins to be called the Rhine further downstream at the confluence of the Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein near Reichenau and Tamins. In the area of the headwaters of the Rhine, the term Rhine is used as part of the name of many rivers, in many different spellings, such as Rhine, Rein, Rain, Ragn, Ren, Reno and Rin.
Since the Rhine contributes most of the water, the term "Rhine Delta" is commonly used, although this name is also used for the delta where the Alpine Rhine flows into Lake Constance. By some calculations, the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta covers 25,347 km 2 (9,787 sq mi), making it the largest in Europe. [1]
Around 1790, large parts of the Rhine Valley were deforested, creating arable land, fields and pasture to feed the population. The Upper Rhine was straightened between 1817 and 1876 by Johann Gottfried Tulla and changed from a relatively sluggish meandering river with major and many smaller branches into a fast flowing stream flanked by ...
Map of Switzerland showing major lakes and rivers. The following is a list of rivers of Switzerland (and tributaries thereof). Included rivers flow either entirely or partly through Switzerland or along its international borders. Swiss rivers belong to five drainage basins, i.e. of the Rhine, the Rhône, the Po, the Danube or the Adige. Of ...
Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins. This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.
Map of the Middle Rhine St. Goarshausen, Burg Katz, with Lorelei rock in Rhineland-Palatinate View from the Loreley. Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein, pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩ˌʁaɪn] ⓘ; kilometres [a] 529 to 660 of the Rhine) [2] is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany.