Düssel

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Düssel
Origin Bergisches Land
Mouth Rhine
Basin countries Germany
Length 46 km

The Düssel is a small right tributary of the River Rhine in North Rhine Westphalia. Its source is between Wülfrath and Velbert. It runs westward through the Neanderthal, where the fossils of the first Neanderthal man were found in 1856. At Düsseldorf it joins the Rhine.