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The Lavaca River is a navigable river in Texas. It begins in the northeastern part of Gonzales County , and travels generally southeast for 115 miles (185 km) until it empties into Lavaca Bay , a component of Matagorda Bay .
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List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem) List of longest rivers of the United States by state; List of rivers of the United States by discharge; List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers; List of river borders of U.S. states; List of rivers of U.S. insular areas; List of rivers of the Americas by coastline
Sunrise over the Merced River as seen from Swinging Bridge in June 2023. Upper Yosemite Falls is visible on the left-hand side of the image. Demonstrated in this photo is the particularly high water level of the Merced River in 2023 as a result of the record snowpack received by the Sierra Nevada mountains.
1838 map from Britannica 7th edition, when the river was called Buenaventura River. View of the American River from below the Guy West Bridge on the Sacramento State campus The American River is a 30-mile-long (50 km) river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown ...
The Tennessee River is a 652 mi (1,049 km) long river located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. Flowing through the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, it begins at the confluence of French Broad and Holston rivers at Knoxville, and drains into the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky.
The river is formed by the confluence of the Big Wood River [Note 1] and the Little Wood River near Gooding. From there the river flows south and west for 12.0 miles (19.3 km) [1] to join the Snake River near Hagerman. [3] The river flows through Thousand Springs State Park, where it tumbles down a stairstep waterfall. The Malad Gorge is 250 ...
The Tiber river in Rome near the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Italy. Rivers became more industrialized with the growth of technology and the human population. [19] As fish and water could be brought from elsewhere, and goods and people could be transported via railways, pre-industrial river uses diminished in favor of more complex uses. This meant that ...