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13 longest rivers in Uruguay

13 rivers, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The rivers

  1. 1Uruguay1,790 km
  2. 2Río Negro (Uruguay)916 km
  3. 3Río Cuareim351 km
  4. 4Tacuarembó317 km
  5. 5Cebollatí296 km
  6. 6Yí River294 km
  7. 7Queguay Grande280 km
  8. 8Jaguarão270 km
  9. 9Santa Lucía260 km
  10. 10Arroyo Cuñapirú248 km
  11. 11Arapey Grande240 km
  12. 12Tacuarí230 km
  13. 13Olimar Grande211 km

Length in km as Wikidata records it (P2043, the best-ranked figure). Each named river counts on its own: the river that carries the name, from its source to its mouth. Headstreams and tributaries with names of their own are rivers of their own, so the Missouri and the Mississippi are two rivers here, as are the Irtysh and the Ob (the Longest River Systems set measures such chains as one system, from the most distant source). A named section of a river is that river: the Solimões, as the Amazon’s upper course is called in Brazil, is the Amazon. Where the recorded length runs from a differently named headwater (the Congo’s from the Lualaba’s source), the course is drawn on up that headwater. Rivers under 200 km are in only when they are well known (30 or more Wikipedia editions), and a river whose mapped course covers under half its recorded length is left out.

On the map

Map of 13 longest rivers in Uruguay, 13 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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