Pader River

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Pader
The Pader at the Stümpel watermill
Origin	Paderborn, Germany
Mouth	Lippe
Basin countries	Germany
Length	4 km
Avg. discharge	3 to 9 m³/s (at its source)

The Pader is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, left tributary of the Lippe. It runs through the city of Paderborn, which it gave its name. Although fairly wide, it is only 4 km in length and hence jokingly called the "shortest river of Germany".^{[citation needed]}