河流

Also known as rivers

自然的水道

OverviewAI-generated

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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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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Wikidata facts

Has part: water
Image: White Nile Fishermen (18156464842).jpg
Has use: water transport

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OpenStreetMap tag: waterway=river
Commons category: Rivers
topic's main category: Q9701284
equivalent class: id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/Q374
Commons gallery: River
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after rivers
model item: main stem
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
P8168: flag of the Republic of the Congo
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000022
Digital Atlas of Idaho URL: digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/hydr/main/images/river.jpg
used by: hydroelectric power station
partially coincident with: stream
greater than: brook
facet of: drainage system

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Article · 中文

河流（江、河、江河、河道，古稱水、川、河川，局地稱溪、港、郭勒、沐沦、曲、藏布等）是自然汇入海洋、湖泊的流水，通常为淡水。在少数情况下，河流流入地下或者在汇入另一水体之前便干涸。河流有時會匯入另一條河流。较小的河流可能会被称作溪流、支流等。河流是水循环的一环。河流中的水主要来自其流域降水形成的地表径流和其他诸如地下水补给、泉以及自然积雪（比如冰川）存水融化。是研究河流的科学，湖沼学则是研究内陆水体的科学。地球外星球上尚未发现河流，尽管在土卫六上有大量烃形成的类河流。其他行星上的峡谷可能是曾经有过河流的证据，特别是火星，理论上推理认为在適居帶的行星或卫星上也可能存在。

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