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25 longest rivers in Colombia

25 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. 1Amazon6,400 km
  2. 2Japurá2,820 km
  3. 3Rio Negro2,250 km
  4. 4Orinoco2,140 km
  5. 5Putumayo1,610 km
  6. 6Magdalena1,528 km
  7. 7Guaviare1,497 km
  8. 8Apaporís river1,370 km
  9. 9Inírida1,300 km
  10. 10Vaupés1,050 km
  11. 11Meta1,000 km
  12. 12Cauca965 km
  13. 13Arauca900 km
  14. 14Tomo650 km
  15. 15Atrato644 km
  16. 16Caguán630 km
  17. 17Vichada580 km
  18. 18Cinaruco480 km
  19. 19Mira400 km
  20. 20Patía400 km
  21. 21San Juan (Colombia)380 km
  22. 22Bogotá375 km
  23. 23San Jorge368 km
  24. 24Catatumbo338 km
  25. 25Zulia310 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.

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