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The River Wye (/waj/; Welsh: Afon Gwy) is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some 250 kilometres (155 miles) from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary. [1] The lower reaches of the river forms part of the border between England and Wales .
Around 10.5 miles (16.9 km) in length, [2] the Wye rises close to West Wycombe village in the Chiltern Hills and flows through High Wycombe, where it is fed from other tributataries such as Hughenden Stream, [3] before emptying into the River Thames at Bourne End, on the reach above Cookham Lock. In particularly wet years, the source can ...
Category:Wye catchment is a sub-category of Category:Drainage basins and part of WP:WikiProject Rivers. Content. This category is intended for all waterbodies (i.e. rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, etc.) that form part of the drainage basin of the main river. To search geographically, use the Category:Rivers by country and Category:Rivers by ...
2.2 Belgian drainage basin. 2.3 Czech drainage basin. 2.4 Danish drainage basins. ... River Wye; River Loddon. St Patrick's Stream; Twyford Brook; Emm Brook; River ...
The River Wye is a limestone river in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England.It is 22 miles long (widely but incorrectly attributed as 15 miles/24 km, which refers to the section within the National Park), and is one of the major tributaries of the River Derwent, which flows into the River Trent, and ultimately into the Humber and the North Sea.
Toggle By drainage basin subsection. 1.1 Delaware River. 1.2 Atlantic Ocean. ... Wye River. Wye East River; Chester River. Corsica River; Cypress Branch; Andover Branch.
Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
It includes drainage basins which do not flow to the ocean (endorheic basins). It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention). The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to ...