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A river is a subclass of watercourse and a facet of a drainage system. It has water as a part and is partially coincident with a stream. A river is greater than a brook. It is different from Reka.
Rivers have uses including water sport, fishing, boating, and water transport. They are used by watercraft, aquatic organisms, swimmers, and fishers. Model items include Amazon, Yangtze, River Thames, and Congo.
The topic is maintained by WikiProject Rivers, WikiProject Geography, and WikiProject Geology. It has lists of rivers by length, discharge, and continent. Described by sources such as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, it is referenced by 10,382 other encyclopedia articles.
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Research
155,000 papers- Backwater makes the tributaries of large river becoming phosphorus "sink".ReviewWater research · 2024Cheng B, Zhang Y, Xia R et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122012
- The Urban River Syndrome: Achieving Sustainability Against a Backdrop of Accelerating Change.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Richardson M, Soloviev MDOI: 10.3390/ijerph18126406
- A river's pulse.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Moutinho SDOI: 10.1126/science.adg4958
- Global meta-analysis of river bacterial communities and responses to human activities.Journal of environmental management · 2025Tan Q, Wang X, Xing Y et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127658
- Geographic patterns of microbial traits of river basins in China.The Science of the total environment · 2023Xu N, Hu H, Wang Y et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162070
- The biogeographic and genomic signatures of dynamic river networks for terrestrial species in Amazonia.ReviewBiological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Musher LJDOI: 10.1111/brv.70042
- River water quality management using an integrated multi-objective optimization-simulation approach based on bankruptcy rules.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Babamiri O, Dinpashoh YDOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31603-4
- Integrative approaches to river ecosystem assessment and restoration: a review of methodologies and strategies for coherent implementation.ReviewEnvironmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Zhang XB, Huang S, Hu YP et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10661-025-14957-9
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Un fiume è un corso d'acqua perenne che scorre sulla superficie terrestre (o in alcuni casi al di sotto di essa) guidato dalla forza di gravità; può essere alimentato dalle precipitazioni piovose, dallo scioglimento di nevi o ghiacciai o dalle falde idriche sotterranee. Raccoglie le acque di una superficie fisicamente delimitata da spartiacque detta bacino idrografico, lungo un percorso variabile nel tempo con una pendenza anch'essa variabile, e termina il suo corso in un lago, un mare, un oceano o in un altro fiume.
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