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  2. List of whitewater rivers - Wikipedia

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    The Petawawa River is a popular whitewater river in Ontario, Canada. A whitewater river is any river where its gradient and/or flow create rapids or whitewater turbulence. . This list only focuses on rivers which are suitable for whitewater sports such as canoeing, kayaking, and raf

  3. Whitewater River (California) - Wikipedia

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    The Whitewater River is a small permanent stream in western Riverside County, California, with some upstream tributaries in southwestern San Bernardino County. The river's headwaters are in the San Bernardino Mountains, and it terminates at the Salton Sea in the Colorado Sonoran Desert. The area drained by the Whitewater River is part of the ...

  4. Whitewater river (river type) - Wikipedia

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    Rivers that originate in the Andes (far west and southwest in basin) are typically whitewater. The best-known whitewater rivers are Amazonian and have their source in the Andes. The main whitewater rivers are Solimões – Amazon, Caquetá–Japurá, Putumayo, Marañón, Ucayali, Javary, Juruá, Acre, Purus, Madre de Dios, and Madeira. [ 8]

  5. Whitewater Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Whitewater Preserve is a nature preserve owned and managed by The Wildlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land conservancy. Consisting of 2,851 acres (11.54 km 2) of land in Riverside County, California, the preserve features the perennial Whitewater River flowing through a desert canyon. The preserve is located within the San Bernardino Mountains ...

  6. U.S. National Whitewater Center - Wikipedia

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    Long: 19 m 3 /s (670 cu ft/s) center.whitewater.org. The U.S. National Whitewater Center (USNWC) is a not-for-profit outdoor recreation and athletic training facility for whitewater rafting, kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking and ice skating which opened to the public in 2006. [1] The Center is located in Charlotte ...

  7. Toccoa/Ocoee River - Wikipedia

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    The whitewater rapids of the Upper Ocoee during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long (150 km) [3][better source needed] river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a tributary of the Hiwassee River, which ...

  8. Whitewater - Wikipedia

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    Whitewater on the river Guil (French Alps) Whitewater on the small rapid of Kannonkoski, Central Finland Vivid water of the Torne River between Sweden and Finland. Whitewater at Yosemite Whitewater forms in the context of rapids , in particular, when a river 's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within ...

  9. List of rivers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem) List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers; List of river borders of U.S. states; List of rivers in U.S. insular areas; List of rivers of the Americas by coastline; List of U.S. rivers by discharge