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This is a list of waterways defined as navigable river
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, a sea or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water...

s, canal
Canal
Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canal: aqueduct canals are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterway canals are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans.The word...

s, estuary
Estuary
An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries are thus subject to both marine influences, such as tides, waves, and the influx of saline water; and riverine influences, such as flows of...

s or firth
Firth
Firth is the word in the Lowland Scots language used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. In mainland Scotland it is used to describe a large sea bay, or even a strait. In the Northern Isles it more usually refers to a smaller inlet...

s.

International waterways

  • Bosphorus
  • Danish straits
    Danish straits
    The Danish straits are the three channels connecting the Baltic sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. They transect Denmark, and are not to be confused with the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
    • Great Belt
      Great Belt
      The Great Belt is a strait between the main Danish islands of Zealand and Funen . Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was trafficked by the Great Belt ferries from the late 19th century until the islands were connected by the Great Belt Fixed Link in 1997–98.-Geography:The Great Belt is...

    • Øresund
  • Dardanelles
    Dardanelles
    The Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with its counterpart the Bosporus. It is located at approximately...


Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( or (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Latin: Bosna i Hercegovina; Serbian Cyrillic: Босна и Херцеговина) is a country in Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula...

  • Bosna
    Bosna
    The Bosna is the third longest river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is considered one of the country's three major internal rivers, along with the Neretva and Vrbas Rivers; the other three major rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the Una, to the northwest, the Sava, to the north, and the Drina,...

  • Buna river
    Buna River
    Buna River may refer to:* Buna River in Bosnia and Herzegovina, left tributary of the Neretva* Bojana River in Albania and Montenegro, Buna in Albanian, which flows from Lake Shkodra into the Adriatic....

  • Drina
    Drina
    The Drina is a river in Serbia and Republika Srpska, Serbian entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkan Peninsula, and it is largest karst river in the Dinaric Alps which belongs to the Danube river watershed. It is a 346 kilometer long tributary of the Sava River, and it forms most of the...

  • Neretva
    Neretva
    Neretva is the largest river of the eastern part of the Adriatic basin. It has been harnessed and controlled to a large extent by four HE power-plants with large dams and their storage lakes, but it is still recognized for its natural beauty, diversity of its landscape and visual attractiveness...

  • Una
  • Vrbas River
    Vrbas River
    The Vrbas is a major river in western Bosnia and Herzegovina.It is a right tributary of the river Sava. The town of Banja Luka is located on the river banks...


Chile
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...


  • Aisén Fjord
    Aisén Fjord
    Aisén Fjord is an ~70 km long fjord stretching east from a skerry-guarded region called Moraleda Channel , which is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. It is located at and is connected indirectly to the open coast of the Pacific Ocean via the Darwin...

  • Beagle Channel
    Beagle Channel
    The Beagle Channel is a strait separating islands of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, in extreme southern South America. It separates Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from the islands Nueva, Picton, Navarino, Hoste, Londonderry, Stewart Islands and other smaller to the south...

  • Bío-Bío Canal
    Bío-Bío Canal
    The Bío-Bío Canal is one of the largest irrigation canals in Chile. It is located in Bío-Bío Province and takes water from Bío-Bío river south to the area of Mulchén for being used in agriculture....

  • Biobío River
  • Calle-Calle River
    Calle-Calle River
    Calle-Calle River also called Gudalafquén in Mapudungun, is a river in Valdivia Province, southern Chile. It drains waters from the San Pedro River to the Valdivia River, which in turn flows into Corral Bay on the Pacific Ocean.Calle-Calle Bridge crosses the river in the city of...

  • Cau-Cau River
    Cau-Cau River
    Cau-Cau River is minor river in the city of Valdivia, southern Chile. Cau-Cau River acts as a regulating channel between Cruces River and Calle-Calle River forming the Isla Teja island in front of the city centre. It confluence with Calle-Calle River marks the beginning of Valdivia River....

  • Chacao Channel
    Chacao Channel
    The Chacao Channel is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates the island of Chiloé from mainland Chile. The channel was created during the Quaternary glaciations by successive glaciers that flowed down fron the Andes to the coast. A bridge connecting the island with the continent is planned...

  • Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake
    Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake
    The Pueyrredón/Cochrane Lake is a glacier fed lake located on the eastern edge of the southern Andes, straddling the border between Argentina and Chile. It is named after Lord Thomas Cochrane on the Chilean side and Pueyrredón on the Argentina side. The border is a peninsula the juts out into the...

  • Cruces River
    Cruces River
    The Cruces River is a river near Valdivia, Chile. Río Cruces originates from hills near Villarica volcano and flows then in south-west direction. The southern and final part of the river follows the Valdivian Coastal Range. At the latitude of Valdivia it is crossed by Río Cruces Bridge near its...

  • General Carrera Lake
  • Llanquihue Lake
  • Magdalena Channel
    Magdalena Channel
    Magdalena Channel is a Chilean channel joining the Strait of Magellan with Cockburn Channel and is part of a major navigation route which ultimately connects with the Beagle Channel. It separates Capitán Aracena Island from the westernmost portion of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, and crosses...

  • Messier Channel
    Messier Channel
    Messier Channel is a channel located in Patagonia, Chile. It trends north-south between Wellington Island and other Pacific islands and the continent, and is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Penas. This channel is named after Charles Messier, who was a French astronomer. It is a fjord in the...

  • Moraleda Channel
    Moraleda Channel
    Moraleda Channel is a body of water separating the Chonos Archipelago from the mainland of Chile. It is located at . Southward from the mouth of the Aisén Fjord, Moraleda Channel divides into two arms. The east arm, called Canal Costa , is the main one...

  • O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
    O'Higgins/San Martín Lake
    The lake known as O'Higgins in Chile and San Martín in Argentina, is located around coordinates in the Patagonia, between the Aysén Region and the Santa Cruz Province....

  • Pirihueico Lake
    Pirihueico Lake
    Pirihueico Lake is one of Seven Lakes in Panguipullis municipality, southern Chile. The lake is of glacial origin and it is enclosed mountains of the Andes. It is located in a geological fault that includes Panguipulli Lake and Lácar Lake in Argentina. The lake is drained by Fui River. Pirihueico...

  • San Rafael Lagoon
    San Rafael Lagoon
    San Rafael Lagoon is an arc-shaped coastal lake located in the Aisén Region of Chile, within the national park that bears its name. By the north the lagoon is connected to Moraleda Channel, by the south lies the Ofqui Isthmus...

  • Strait of Magellan
    Strait of Magellan
    The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland Chile and north of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego...

  • Todos los Santos Lake
    Todos los Santos Lake
    Todos los Santos Lake is located in the 10th region of Chile , 96 km northeast of the regional capital Puerto Montt and 76 km east of Puerto Varas, within the boundaries of the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park. It has a surface area of 178.5 km² and a maximum depth of 337 m...

  • Valdivia River
    Valdivia River
    The Valdivia River or Río Valdivia, as it is known locally, is a major river in southern Chile. It is the continuation of the Calle-Calle River, from the point where it meets the Cau-Cau River in the city of Valdivia. The Valdivia river ends in Corral Bay, on the Pacific coast. Other tributaries...