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Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000 m 3 /s (71,000 cu ft/s) are shown. It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric. It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric.
All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed. Estimates are approximate, because data are variable with time period measured and also because many rivers lack a gauging station near their point of outflow.
Arctic River (Inupiaq: Aguġvik) is a waterway in the U.S. state of Alaska. Situated on the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, it rises south of Ear Mountain. It is about 25 miles (40 km) long, and flows into the west side of Shishmaref Inlet. Southeast of Ear Mountain, the course of this river is in a broad basin containing a number of ...
Arctic Ocean: Oymyakon, often thought of as the Northern Pole of Cold, located on main stem of river. 15 Great Tenasserim: Burma: 300 kilometres (190 mi) 17,673 square kilometres (6,824 sq mi) 1,788 cubic metres per second (63,100 cu ft/s) 56 cubic kilometres (13 cu mi) Andaman Sea: Discharge estimated in absence of streamgauges. 16 Copper
The Atlantic Seaboard basin in eastern North America drains to the Atlantic Ocean; the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin in central and eastern North America drains to the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic Ocean or to the Labrador Sea; the Gulf of Mexico basin in the southern United States drains to the Gulf of Mexico, a basin of the Atlantic ...
Basin Type Continent Drains to Basin area Notes km 2 mi 2; Atlantic Ocean: Ocean: Multiple: n/a: 69,800,000 26,900,000 [Note 1] [2]Arctic Ocean: Ocean: Multiple: n/a ...
The average yearly freshwater discharge from continents is estimated around % /. [1] Compared to other ocean basins, the discharge is relatively high into the western tropical Atlantic, led by the Amazon and the Orinoco river estuaries. This causes some local effects as well adjustment to the large scale thermohaline circulation, as discussed ...
Average annual flow for the Kobuk River at Ambler ranged from 5,839 cubic feet per second (165.3 m 3 /s) to 14,890 cubic feet per second (422 m 3 /s) over the period of record from 1966 to 1978, with peak discharge ranging between 30,000 cubic feet per second (850 m 3 /s) and 95,000 cubic feet per second (2,700 m 3 /s).