List of rivers of the Americas
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This list of rivers of the Americas includes all the major rivers of the Americas. See each article for their tributaries, drainage areas, etc. Unusually significant tributaries appear in this list, under the river into which they drain.

North America

• Alabama - Alabama
  • Tombigbee
• Altamaha - Georgia
• Appalachicola - Florida
• Ashuelot River - New Hampshire
• Atchafalaya
  • Red
• Back River - Nunavut
• Balsas - Mexico
• Brazos - Texas
• Coatzacoalcos - Mexico
• Connecticut River - New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut
• Colorado - Texas
• Colorado
  • Gila - Arizona
  • Green - Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
• Columbia - Washington, British Columbia
  • Deschutes
  • John Day
  • Okanagan
  • Pend Oreille
    • Clark Fork
  • Snake - Washington, Idaho
    • Bruneau - Idaho
  • Spokane
  • Willamette - Oregon
    • Clackamas
    • Molalla
      • Pudding
    • Santiam
    • McKenzie
    • Tualitan
    • Yamhill
  • Yakima
• Connecticut - New England
• Copper - Alaska
• Coquille
• Delaware -- Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
  • Lehigh, Pennsylvania
• Fraser - British Columbia
• Genesee - Pennsylvania, New York
• Housatonic
• Hudson- New York
  • Mohawk
• James - Virginia
• Kalamazoo River - Michigan
• Kennebec - Maine
• Klamath
• Kobuk - Alaska
• Kuskokuim - Alaska
• Lynches River North Carolina, South Carolina
• Mackenzie - Northwest Territories
• Maumee - Indiana, Ohio
  • Auglaize
  • St. Joseph
  • St. Mary's
  • Tiffin
• Merrimack - New England
• Mississippi
  • Arkansas
  • Des Moines
  • Iowa
  • Illinois
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
    • Big Sioux
    • James
    • Kansas
      • Republican
    • Niobrara
    • Platte
      • North Platte
      • South Platte
    • Yellowstone
      • Bighorn
  • Ohio
    • Allegheny
    • Big Sandy
    • Kanawha
    • Kentucky
    • Monongahela
    • Scioto
    • Tennessee
    • Wabash
  • Rock
  • St. Croix
  • Wisconsin
  • Yazoo
• Nelson - Saskatchewan, Manitoba
• Panuco River - Mexico
• Pee Dee - South Carolina, North Carolina
• Potomac - Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
  • Shenandoah
• Quinnipiac
• Rappahannock - Virginia
• Raritan
• Red River (of the North)
• Rio Balsas - Mexico
• Rio Grande - Mexico, Texas, New Mexico
  • Pecos - Texas, New Mexico
• Roanoke - North Carolina, Virginia
• Rogue - Oregon
• Sabine
• Sacramento - California
• Saint John - New Brunswick, Maine
• St. Lawrence - Ontario, Quebec
  • Humber - Ontario
  • Niagara - Ontario, New York
    • Grand (Erie) - Ontario
      • French (Huron) - Ontario
      • Vermillion River (Huron) - Ontario
  • Ottawa River - Ontario, Quebec
  • Saguenay River - Quebec
• San Joaquin - California
• Santa Clara - southern California
• Santee - South Carolina
• Saskatchewan - Alberta, Saskatchewan
• Smith
• Susitna - Alaska
• Susquehanna - Maryland, Pennsylvania
• Suwannee - Florida
• Trinity
• Umpqua
• Yukon - Alaska, Yukon
  • Koyukuk
  • Tanana
    • Nenana

Central America

• Escondido - Nicaragua
• Grande de Matagalpa - Nicaragua
• Patuca - Honduras
• San Juan - Nicaragua
• Usumacinta - Mexico, Guatemala

South America

• Amazon
  • Madeira
  • Rio Negro
  • Tocantins
• Atrato - Colombia
• Chubut - Argentina
• Colorado - Argentina
• Essequibo - Guyana
• Magdalena - Colombia
• Orinoco - Venezuela
  • Apure
  • Meta
• Parnaiba - Brazil
• Rio de la Plata
  • Paraná - Argentina, Paraguay
  • Uruguay - Uruguay, Brazil
• Sao Francisco - Brazil

Related articles and lists

• Physical geography
• List of tributaries of Hudson Bay
• List of rivers in Brazil
• List of rivers in Canada
• List of rivers in Central American and the Caribbean
• List of rivers in Greenland
• List of rivers in Mexico
• List of rivers in the United States
  • List of California rivers
• List of rivers in western South America

See also: Rivers of Europe, Rivers of Asia, Rivers of Africa, Alphabetical list of Rivers in the World, and List of reference tables (lists other than rivers)

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