List of rivers by discharge

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River Length (km) Length (miles) Drainage area (km²) Average discharge (m³/s) Outflow Reference
Amazon - Marañón 6,992 4,010 6,915,000 175,000 Atlantic Ocean [1][2]
Ganges - Brahmaputra - Meghna 2,948 1,832 1,635,000 42,470 Bay of Bengal [3]
Congo 4,371 2,716 3,822,000 41,200 Atlantic Ocean [1][1]
Orinoco 2,140 1,330 880,000 33,000 Atlantic Ocean [1]
Yangtze
(Chang Jiang)		 6,380 3,964 1,940,000 35,000 East China Sea [1][2]
Madeira 3,380 2,100 1,420,000 31,200 Amazon River [4][5]
Rio Negro 2,230 1,390 691,000 28,400 Amazon River [4]
Paraná
(Río de la Plata)		 3,998 2,484 3,100,000 25,700 Atlantic Ocean [1]
Brahmaputra 2,840 1,765 536,600 19,200 Padma River [3]
Yenisei 5,550 3,449 2,580,000 18,040 Kara Sea [1][2]
Zambezi 2,574 1,599 1,331,000 7,070 Indian Ocean [6]
Lena 4,260 2,647 2,490,000 16,200 Laptev Sea [1][2]
Mississippi 6,270 3,896 2,980,000 16,200 Gulf of Mexico [1]
Madre de Dios 1,130 72 125,500 15,500 Madeira River [7]
Mekong 4,023 2,500 811,000 14,800 South China Sea [1][2]
Japurá 2,615 1,625 242,259 14,366 Amazon River [8]
Pearl - Xi Jiang
(West) (Si Kang)		 2,200 1,376 437,000 13,600 South China Sea [1]
Tocantins 2,699 1,677 920,000 13,600 Atlantic Ocean, Amazon River [9]
Ganges 2,510 1,560 907,000 13,159 Padma River [10]
Ayeyarwady 2,170 1,348 411,000 13,000 Andaman Sea [1]
Ob' - Irtysh 5,410 3,449 2,990,000 10,300 Gulf of Ob [1][2]
Beni 1,599 994 283,350 10,300 Madeira River [7]
Amur
(Heilong)		 4,352 2,714 1,855,000 11,400 Sea of Okhotsk [1]
Mackenzie - Peace - Finlay 4,241 2,635 1,790,000 10,300 Beaufort Sea [1]
Saint Lawrence 3,058 1,900 1,030,000 10,100 Gulf of Saint Lawrence [1]
Niger 4,167 2,589 2,090,000 9,570 Atlantic Ocean [1]
Kasai 2,153 1,338 880,200 8,346 Congo River [8]
Volga 3,692 2,294 1,380,000 8,060 Caspian Sea
Sepik 1,126 700 80,321 8,000 Bismarck Sea
Ohio 1,579 981 490,601 7,957 Mississippi River [11]
Columbia 2,000 1,243 668,000 7,500 Pacific Ocean
Danube 2,860 1,777 817,000 7,130 Black Sea
Magdalena 1,540 963 257,438 6,987 Atlantic Ocean
Purus 3,211 1,995 63,166 6,829 Amazon River [8]
Indus 3,200 2,000 1,165,000 6,600 Arabian Sea
Yukon 3,187 1,980 854,696 6,428 Bering Sea
Araguaia 2,627 1,632 358,125 6,216 Tocantins River [8]
Niagara 58 36 684,000 5,796 Lake Ontario
Aldan 2,273 1,412 729,000 5,489 Lena River [8]
Detroit 51 32 1,813 5,324 Lake Erie
St. Clair 63 39 576,000 5,200 Lake St. Clair
Salween 2,815 1,749 320,000 4,876 Andaman Sea
Caroní 952 595 95,000 4,850 Orinoco River
Juruá 2,410 1,498 200,000 4,795 Amazon River [8]
Kama 1,805 1,122 507,000 4,100 Volga River
Pechora 1,809 1,124 289,532 3,949 Barents Sea
Fraser 1,375 854 220,000 3,475 Pacific Ocean
Northern Dvina 744 462 357,052 3,332 White Sea [1]
Godavari 1,465 910 312,812 3,061 Bay of Bengal
Ghaghara 1,080 671 127,950 2,990 Ganges River [12]
Yamuna 1,376 855 366,223 2,950 Ganges River [12]
São Francisco 2,830 1,758 641,000 2,943 Atlantic Ocean [13]
Nile 6,650 4,132 3,400,000 2,830 Mediterranean Sea [1]
Yellow 5,464 3,395 752,000 2,571 East China Sea
Neva 74 46 281,000 2,445 Baltic Sea [14]
Missouri 3,767 2,341 1,371,010 2,445 Mississippi River [1]
Nelson 2,575 1600 982,900 2,370 Hudson Bay [15]
Rhine - Aare 1,233 820 198,735 2,330 North Sea [16]
Koshi 729 453 69,300 2,166 Ganges River [12]
St. Marys 120 75 127,700 2,135 Lake Erie
many more rivers with lower discharge

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Rivers of the Earth
  2. ^ a b c d e f Gupta, Avijit (2007). Large rivers: geomorphology and management. John Wiley and Sons. p. 31. ISBN 9780470849873. http://books.google.com/books?id=gXgyHLT_hwIC&pg=PA31. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
  3. ^ a b Pranab Kumar Parua (3 January 2010). The Ganga: water use in the Indian subcontinent. Springer. pp. 267–273. ISBN 9789048131020. http://books.google.com/books?id=yUc7Cus2a-MC&pg=PA267. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA) e Secretaria Nacional de Recursos Hídricos ([1])
  5. ^ R. Ziesler and G.D. Ardizzone: The Inland Waters of Latin America. COPESCAL Technical Paper No. 1, FAO, Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Service, Rome 1979 [2]
  6. ^ Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World’s Large River Systems
  7. ^ a b http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/b_fdi_35-36/41614.pdf Water resources, salinity and yiels of the rivers of the Bolivian Amazon
  8. ^ a b c d e f GRDC Database
  9. ^ The Hydrographi Region of The Amazon
  10. ^ M. Monirul Qader Mirza; Ahsan Uddin Ahmed; Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (2008). Interlinking of rivers in India: issues and concerns. CRC Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780415404693. http://books.google.com/books?id=i88ZTa8LJjUC&pg=PA109. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
  11. ^ Leeden, Frits van der; Fcrimson L. Troise, David Keith Todd (1990). The Water Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Chelsea, Mich.: Lewis Publishers. p. 126. ISBN 0-87371-120-3. 
  12. ^ a b c Jain, Sharad K.; Agarwal, Pushpendra K.; Singh, Vijay P. (2007). Hydrology and water resources of India. Springer. p. 341. ISBN 9781402051791. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKs1gBhJSWIC&pg=PA341. Retrieved 26 April 2011. 
  13. ^ São Francisco River
  14. ^ Nezhihovsky, R. A. (1981). Neva River and Neva Bay. Gidrometeoizdat. http://books.google.com/?id=PQ8LHQAACAAJ. 
  15. ^ Nelson River
  16. ^ [3]

See also

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