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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 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... The main article for this category is List of rivers of Switzerland;
This article contains a sortable table listing all major lakes of Switzerland. The table includes all still water bodies located either entirely or partly in Switzerland , both natural and artificial, that have a surface area of at least 30 hectares (74 acres), regardless of water volume, maximum depth or other metric.
The climate of Switzerland gives precipitation under the form of snow and rain and is also responsible for the evaporation of water into the atmosphere. The altitude and climate allow the formation and maintenance of many glaciers that feed rivers from five major European river catchments, through which water leaves the country and joins the sea.
Rivers of Switzerland (10 C, 117 P) S. Springs of Switzerland (2 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 22 July 2024, at 07:55 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
[citation needed] Following the rise of Geneva it became Lac de Genève [5] (translated into English as Lake Geneva), but Le Léman was the common name on all local maps [6] [7] and is the customary name in the French language. In contemporary English, the name Lake Geneva has become predominant. [4]
Even though the Swiss Plateau forms a basin, it is by no means a flat territory and it is covered with rolling hills, lakes and rivers. Most of Switzerland's large lakes are located in the plateau. Both Lake Geneva (581.3 square kilometres (224.4 sq mi)) and Lake Constance (541.1 square kilometres (208.9 sq mi)) are located in the plateau but ...
The Reuss (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ; Swiss German: Rüüss) is a river in Switzerland. With a length of 164 kilometres (102 mi) and a drainage basin of 3,426 square kilometres (1,323 sq mi), it is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aare and Rhône). The upper Reuss forms the main valley of the canton of Uri.