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Ruwer
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Also known as Ruwer River

The Ruwer is a river in Germany with a length of . It is a right tributary of the Moselle. The valley of the Ruwer is a part of the Moselle wine-growing region near Trier in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is famous for its Riesling wines, see Ruwer (region), and, prior to 1 August 2007, the Moselle region used to be known as Moselle-Saar-Ruwer.

Key facts

River.name
Ruwer
River.image
Ruwertal kasel waldrach.jpg
River.image_caption
Ruwer valley near Kasel
River.source1_location
Hunsrück
River.mouth_location
Moselle
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Germany
River.subdivision_type2
State
River.subdivision_name2
Rhineland-Palatinate
River.length_km
46
River.basin_size_km2
238

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • History
  • Tributaries
  • Mills
  • Biology
  • See also
  • References

The Ruwer is a river in Germany with a length of . It is a right tributary of the Moselle. The valley of the Ruwer is a part of the Moselle wine-growing region near Trier in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is famous for its Riesling wines, see Ruwer (region), and, prior to 1 August 2007, the Moselle region used to be known as Moselle-Saar-Ruwer.

In the lower Ruwer valley are the villages of Waldrach, Kasel, Mertesdorf, Eitelsbach and Ruwer.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruwer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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