Flowing continuously from its headwaters in Giant Springs to the mouth at the Missouri River, the Roe has the distinction of being the shortest river in North America.

Shortest Rivers In The World

Rank	River, Country	Length
1	Tamborasi River, Indonesia	20 meters
2	Kovasselva River, Norway	20 meters
3	Reprua River, Georgia	27 meters
4	Ombla River, Croatia	30 meters

List of the shortest rivers

• Asia.
• Europe.
• North America.
• South America.

The shortest river in Canada, and the second shortest in the world, is the Powell River in B.C at only 500 metres long.

It takes its name from the river draining Powell Lake, which was named for Israel Wood Powell, British Columbia Indian superintendent in the 1880s. The original settlement was a pulp and paper milling centre established as a COMPANY TOWN in 1912.

River Corrib

Corry) from the Shannon’s freshwater flow of 258.3 kilometres (160.5 mi), the Shannon as a freshwater river is only about 160 kilometres (100 mi) long….Longest Irish Rivers (with Basin areas)

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River	River Noreb
Counties	Tipperary, Laois, Kilkenny
Length	140 km (87 mi)
Basin Area	2,530 km2

The River Suir, Irelands third longest river is 184 kms long, rising on the eastern flanks of Benduff, North West of Templemore. It flows through Thurles, Holycross, Cahir, Clonmel and Carrick on Suir, where it becomes tidal before continuing to Waterford and the sea.

Logically, Russia, by far the largest country in the world, with a landscape and climate that lead to rivers being found throughout its area, should be the country with the most rivers.

There are over 70,000 km of waterways in the Republic of Ireland contained in 3,192 river water bodies including rivers, streams, and tributaries. The major rivers have their length (in miles and kilometres) given.

Cities & Towns

• Belfast. Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and it is the largest urban area in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster, always warm to…
• Doolin.
• Dublin.
• Killarney.
• Galway.
• Kinsale.
• Westport.
• Adare.

The ESB owns the Shannon and many other lakes and rivers are in public ownership. But a recent government-sponsored report into inland fisheries commissioned by the Department of the Marine recommended the the State should “withdraw from ownership” of these waterways.

A river is a natural flow of running water that follows a well-defined, permanent path, usually within a valley. A stream (also called a brook or a creek) is a natural flow of water that follows a more temporary path that is usually not in a valley.

Most lakes have at least one natural outflow in the form of a river or stream, which maintain a lake’s average level by allowing the drainage of excess water. Some lakes do not have a natural outflow and lose water solely by evaporation or underground seepage or both.

Creek is a noun that refers to a shallow stream. Crick is an American dialectical variant that is popular in some genres of fiction. Creek is the standard term in all other contexts.

: a painful spasmodic condition of muscles (as of the neck or back) crick. verb. cricked; cricking; cricks.

On the surface, the words creek and crick have two distinct meanings. A creek is a stream or brook, a small body of water that flows from a larger body of water like a river. A crick, meanwhile, is that odd little spasm one feels at various places, particularly one’s back or neck.

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river. 2 chiefly British : a small inlet or bay narrower and extending farther inland than a cove. 3 archaic : a narrow or winding passage.

Creek synonyms

• stream. The definition of a stream is a steady movement or flow of liquid.
• watercourse. A stream or river.
• streamlet. A small stream; rivulet.
• brook. A small stream, usually not so large as a river.
• branch. A division of a business or other organization.
• kill.
• estuary.
• bight.

Brook. A stream smaller than a creek, especially one that is fed by a spring or seep. It is usually small and easily forded. A brook is characterised by its shallowness.

What is another word for small river?

brook	rivulet
gill	rill
runnel	streamlet
stream	brooklet
creek	runlet

What is the opposite of creek?

lake	loch
lough	mere
tarn

It can be a small stream, an inlet from the sea or a narrow channel that connects islands. It is often a shallow branch of a river and is much smaller than a river. While rivers can have several branches or tributaries, a creek does not. Rivers flow in channels and have branches or tributaries while creeks do not.

A tributary is a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water. The larger, or parent, river is called the mainstem.

the Amazon River

The Mississippi drainage basin includes the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers, the two longest main-stem rivers in the United States, as well as 18 more of the rivers on this list. The Mississippi main stem is highlighted in dark blue.