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In addition, the length of meanders can change significantly over time due to natural or artificial cutoffs, when a new channel cuts across a narrow strip of land, bypassing a large river bend. For example, due to 18 cutoffs created between 1766 and 1885, the length of the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois , to New Orleans, Louisiana , was ...
No Continent River Average discharge (m 3 /s) Length Drainage area (km 2) Outflow Type (km) (miles) 1 South America: Amazon: 224,000 6,992 4,344 6,915,000 Atlantic Ocean
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Major river in West Africa Niger River Fleuve Niger (French) Joliba (Maninka) Jeliba (Bambara) Maayo Ɓaleewo 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤴𞤮 𞤄𞤢𞤤𞤫𞤮 (Fula) Egerew ⴻⴳⴻⵔⴻⵡ (Tamasheq) Issa Beri (Zarma) Kwara (Hausa) Toru Beni (Ijo languages) Ọya (Yoruba) Óshimiri ...
Saint Lawrence River: Canada: Ontario, Quebec US: New York: 310 mi (500 km) Gulf of St. Lawrence, Atlantic Ocean: connects Great Lakes, provides basis for St. Lawrence Seaway: Cuyahoga River: US: Ohio: 84.9 mi (136.6 km) Saint Lawrence River: 1795 western boundary of US, so polluted in 1969 that it caught fire Detroit River: Canada: Ontario US ...
Three—the Milk River, the Red River of the North, and the Saint Lawrence River—begin in the United States and flow into Canada; two do the opposite (Yukon and Columbia). Also a segment of the Saint Lawrence River forms the international border between part of the province of Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York.
Detroit River Michigan / Ontario United States / Canada: Halls Stream Quebec/ New Hampshire and Vermont: Niagara River New York / Ontario: Pine River Minnesota / Ontario: Pigeon River: Rainy River: St. Clair River Michigan / Ontario: St. Croix River Maine / New Brunswick: St. Francis River Maine / New Brunswick, Quebec: Saint John River
Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is a major tributary of the Niger River. [2] The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km 2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of approximately 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) is navigable during the summer months .
The Benin–Niger border starts in the north-west at the tripoint with Burkina Faso in the Mékrou River, then follows this river in a north-eastwards direction before reaching the Niger River. The border then follows the Niger River south-eastwards to the Nigerian tripoint. [2] The entire Mékrou river section of the boundary falls within the ...