Rivers Of The World | Longest River in the World

Rivers of the world:

 The Nile River is the longest River in the World

Ø The Amazon River is the largest River in the World; the Amazon River receives water from more than ‘thousand’ tributaries.

Ø       The Grand Canyon, a deep gorge in Arizona, USA, was formed by the erosional activity of the fast-flowing Colorado River.

Ø        The longest River in Europe is The Volga.

Ø      The Amazon River carries more water than any other river on the Earth. The amount of water it carries is greater than the amount carried by the Mississippi, the Yangtze and the Nile Combined.

Ø       The end of a River is called its mouth

Ø      Some of the oldest and greatest civilization of the world flourished along the fertile banks of river. Some of these rivers are: the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in the Indian subcontinent, the Yellow River in China and the Tigris and the Euphrates in the Middle East.

Ø     The Hudson River in the state of New York, USA, is named after English explorer Henry Hudson, who used the river to explore what was then the New World.

Ø   India’s Gangotri Glacier is the source of the Ganges, the source of India’s Ganges River. The source could be melting snow

Ø     The snow melting high up on the Andes Mountain in Peru, for instance, feeds the Amazon River. A River’s source could be a lake with an outlet Stream.

  

Ø       For Example, the source of the Mississippi River in North America is a tiny stream flowing from Lake Itasca. A spring bubbling out of the ground can also be a river’s source. One such river is the Danube.

From its source, a river flows downhill as a small stream. The movement of water in a river is called a current. The current is usually strongest near the river’s source. On its downhill journey a river is also fed by other streams, called tributaries. A river and its tributaries together make up a river system. Running across diver’s landscape, the river eventually pours into a large river, a lake or the ocean. The place where a river empties into another body of water is called its mouth. Ina few cases, a river simply flow into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water.