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Klarälven
Klarälven (Trysilelva in Norway) is a 460 km river flowing from the Norwegian fells through Värmland, Sweden, into Lake Vänern at Karlstad. Sweden's last log-driving river until 1991, now regulated by 11 hydropower dams and used for timber raft tourism.
Kolyma (landform)
Kolyma (Колыма), 2,129 km Siberian Arctic river in Magadan Oblast and Yakutia, largest river fully in continuous permafrost, 647,000 km² basin, Kolyma and Ust-Srednekanskaya hydroelectric stations.
Konkouré
Konkouré: river and mangrove estuary in Guinea whose delta is Ramsar Site no. 575 (designated 18 November 1992, 90,000 ha), also IBA GN013 and a Key Biodiversity Area, with tide-dominated hydrodynamics and a Garafiri dam 130 km upstream.
Kootenay River
Kootenay River (Kootenai in the US), a 448-mile Columbia tributary looping from BC through Montana and Idaho back to Kootenay Lake and the Columbia near Castlegar; Libby and Duncan dams regulate it under the Columbia River Treaty.
Kotto
The Kotto is a river of the Central African Republic, about 730 km long, draining the country's eastern half before joining the Mbomou to form the Ubangi.
Kotuy
Kotuy (Коту́й), also spelled Kotui, a 1,409 km river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, rising on the Putorana Plateau and forming, with the Kheta, the Khatanga River; basin 176,000 km², discharge 1,600 m³/s.
Koyukuk
Koyukuk River, major tributary of the Yukon River in interior Alaska; rises in the Brooks Range, drains about 31,400-35,135 mi², discharges 770 m³/s, largest contributor to Yukon summer chum salmon, site of the 1898-1918 Koyukuk gold rush.
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी)
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी), third-longest river of India, rises in the Western Ghats near Mahabaleshwar and flows about 1,400 km to the Bay of Bengal; a 258,948 km² basin shared by Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh under tribunal awards.
Kunene River
Kunene River, also spelled Cunene, is a perennial river in southwestern Africa that originates in central Angola and flows to the Atlantic, supplying water and hydropower to both countries.
Kura
Kura (Georgian Mtkvari, ancient Cyrus), largest river of the Transcaucasus, rises near Kars, Turkey, flows through Georgia and Azerbaijan to the Caspian; 1,515 km, Mingachevir dam, shared basin governance.
Kura - South Caspian Drainages
The Kura - South Caspian Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion (ID 434) covering all rivers draining to the southern Caspian Sea, spanning Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and Russia.
Kuskokwim River
The Kuskokwim River, 724 miles long, is Alaska's second-largest river, draining about 130,000 km2 into the Bering Sea. It hosts chinook, chum, sockeye, pink, and coho runs, one of Alaska's largest subsistence fisheries, and co-management by the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission amid salmon declines.
Kwango (landform)
Kwango River, also called Cuango or Lucuali, a transboundary Angolan-DR Congo river and largest left-bank tributary of the Kasai in the Congo basin, about 1,100 km long, diamond-bearing, with 18 geology-controlled knickpoints.
Kwilu (landform)
Kwilu (Cuilo) is a 965 km river rising in the Angolan highlands and flowing northwest through DRC's Kwilu province to Bandundu, joining the Kwango; average flow 3,299 m3/s, navigable from Kikwit to Bandundu.
Kymi
Kymi (Kymijoki, Kymmene älv) is Finland's southernmost salmon river, draining lake Päijänne into the Eastern Gulf of Finland at Kotka; 37,107 km² catchment, 283 m³/s mean discharge, famous for salmon fishing and the tsar's Langinkoski lodge.
La Grande
La Grande (La Grande Rivière, Cree Tschishasipi/Chisasibi) is an 893-km river in Nord-du-Québec flowing into James Bay, backbone of the 16,527-MW La Grande hydroelectric complex built from 1973, with major diversions, mercury contamination, and Cree relocation to Chisasibi.
Lachlan
The Lachlan River, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie, is Australia's fourth longest river at 1,448 km, flowing from the Great Dividing Range to the Great Cumbung Swamp in NSW.
Lake Victoria Basin
Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa drainage basin of Lake Victoria (68,800 km² lake, 193,000+ km² catchment) shared by Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi; home to 42+ million people, endemic haplochromine cichlids, Nile perch fishery, and EAC-managed transboundary governance.
Lehigh River
The Lehigh River is a 100-mile Pennsylvania tributary of the Delaware River draining 1,364 square miles, dammed by the 1961 Francis E. Walter Dam for flood control, famed for Lehigh Gorge whitewater, its coal-canal heritage, and use as a drinking-water source.
Leitha
Leitha (Hungarian Lajta, historically Sar): Austrian-Hungarian river, right Danube tributary formed by Schwarza-Pitten confluence at Lanzenkirchen, about 180 km long, historic Austria-Hungary border giving Cisleithania and Transleithania their names.
Lena (landform)
The Lena is a large river in eastern Siberia that flows north from near Lake Baikal to the Laptev Sea, delivering about 15 percent of the freshwater entering the Arctic Ocean.
Lena Delta
Lena Delta (Lena River Delta), Siberian Arctic river delta at the Laptev Sea; largest Arctic delta, ~30,000 km², 6,500 km of channels, continuous permafrost, Lena Delta Reserve.
Lerma - Chapala
The Lerma-Chapala basin is a river basin and freshwater ecoregion in central Mexico, where the Río Lerma flows more than 700 km into Lago de Chapala.
Liao He
Liao He (辽河, Liao River), river and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 637 in Liaoning and Jilin, China; temperate floodplain system draining to Korea Bay and Bohai Sea, 3 endemic fishes, large delta wetlands, Ramsar site since 2004.
Limpopo River
Limpopo River, transboundary river of southern Africa (basin 412,938 km²) shared by Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, draining to the Indian Ocean; irrigation-dominated water use, LIMCOM governance, recurring floods and droughts.
List of Indian cities on rivers
List of Indian cities on rivers: major Indian cities and the rivers they stand on, from Agra on the Yamuna to Vijayawada on the Krishna, with the historical and modern role of rivers in Indian urban growth.
List of longest rivers of China
List of longest rivers of China, led by the Yangtze (Changjiang, ~6,300 km), Yellow River (5,464 km), and Heilongjiang/Amur (3,474 km in China); includes Lancang-Mekong, Yarlung Zangbo, Pearl, and Songhua, with notes on why published lengths differ.
List of rivers of Africa
List of rivers of Africa: overview of the continent's river systems, led by the Nile (about 6,650 km), Congo (about 41,000 m3/s discharge), Niger, Zambezi, Orange, and Limpopo, with basin areas, inland drainage, and transboundary facts.
List of rivers of Australia
The list of rivers of Australia ranks the country's rivers by length, with the River Murray the longest at 2508 km and the Murray-Darling system the longest continuous waterway at 3672 km.
List of rivers of China
Rivers of China: over 45,200 rivers of 50 km² or larger drainage, led by the Yangtze (长江, 6,300 km) and Yellow River (黄河, 5,464 km); exorheic rivers drain 64% of the land, the Tarim is the longest inland river.