Rivers And Lakes Codexery

A source-cited reference to rivers and lakes

Rivers And Lakes (23)

• Elbe — One of the major rivers of Central Europe, flowing from the Giant Mountains to the North Sea.
• Ganges — The Ganges: sacred lifeline of India and Bangladesh, second-largest river system by discharge.
• Godavari River — India's second longest river, the Godavari flows 1465 km from Maharashtra to the Bay of Bengal.
• Indus River — A transboundary river of Asia, rising in Tibet and flowing through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
• Irrawaddy River — Principal river of Myanmar, vital for commerce, agriculture, and biodiversity.
• Irtysh — Longest tributary river in the world, flowing through three countries.
• Jordan River — A 251 km endorheic river flowing through the Levant, sacred to three major religions.
• Krishna River — India's third-longest river, flowing 1400 km across the Deccan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal.
• Lake Albert (Africa) — Lake on the Uganda–DRC border, part of the upper Nile system.
• Lake Baikal — World's deepest and oldest freshwater lake by volume.
• Lake Balkhash — Large Central Asian lake with fresh and saline halves.
• Lake Chad — Endorheic lake at the crossroads of four African nations.
• Lake Erie — Southernmost, shallowest Great Lake with shortest water residence time.
• Lake Huron — Second-largest Great Lake by surface area, third-largest by volume.
• Lake Kariba — World's largest man-made reservoir by volume.
• Lake Ladoga — Europe's largest lake, rich in history and wildlife.
• Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre — Australia's largest ephemeral lake, a salt-encrusted basin of extremes and rare beauty.
• Yamuna — Second-largest tributary of the Ganges and a sacred Hindu river.
• Saraswati River — A deified Rigvedic river central to Vedic religion.
• Hooghly River — Westernmost distributary of the Ganges, sacred to Hindus.
• Gomti River — A Ganges tributary flowing through Uttar Pradesh's alluvial plains.
• Triveni Sangam — Sacred triple-river confluence in Hindu tradition.
• Bhagirathi River — Himalayan headstream of the Ganges, sacred in Hindu tradition.

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