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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Amazon

But Rubicon is really goated river name

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Rubicon is just an inherently GOATed word in general. It punches you in the mouth on its way out, and you thank it for it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Shenandoah is another good one, it has a good old and easy going feel, just like the river does

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Ohio is also a banger Name as well as the POTOMAC flowing into CHESAPEAKE BAY. the britsh should have had the curtancy to take some natives with the to name things .. we could have been spared Many Queen Ann Islands, Prince Henry Peak.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Big fan of the Dnieper. Always loved how it sounds.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If you don't think humans are good at naming rivers I gotta say, you're in de Nile

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Volga for sure makes the list

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

DON - DNEPR - JENISSEI - LENA - REKA PUR - TAS - ANGARA

:chefkiss

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Orinoco, Paraná, Yangtze, Volga

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Euphrates is another all time great. Especially when it comes paired with the Tigris

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

"river river" is an all-time classic

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The B kinda harshes me. Does anyone along the way use it? Donau, Duna, all prettier.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

And then you have the Po, which is remarkable for how silly it looks and sounds.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Po is like the one exeption , litterally ass in german. and its such a magnificant area he flows through.. its a tragegdy. you expect better from the Italians "Lago Maggiore" / "Adria"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Its tributaries have nice names, too. Dora Riparia, Tanaro...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Gambia, the river so nice they named a country after it

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Where I'm at we have East River, West River, Mill River (because there was a mill on it), they were kind of lazy with the names. Other good names are Short Hill, Long Hill, and most of the town names are just copies of names where the settlers came from.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

We mostly have [name of city] River. We're not that creative.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

An tSionainn is classic, of course, as well as all her daughters, but the Three Sisters: an Bhearú, an Fheoir, and an tSiúr are pretty lovely. An Bhanna is a personal favourite.

Athabasca and Assiniboine are pretty great, as is the Don's Anishnaabe name Wonscotonach.

Wolastoq is pretty excellent, the people who live there are even called the Wolastoqiyik because of how excellent a river it is.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Cleveland is built on the Cuyahoga, which means "crooked river" because that shit is twisty as hell

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Seems like a good list of names to use for naming small starships

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

El Rio Bravo Del Norte has a name that makes it clear you should not fuck with it.

Three's some good rivers near me that have names in the local Algonquin language, but I'd basically be doxing myself.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

lots of rivers in Brazil have names that come from indigenous languages, so we have some real bangers too: Xingu, Juruá, Parnaíba, Iguaçu, Juruena, Tapajós, Tietê, Piracicaba

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

THE ORINOCO is also a Banger !

edit. damn hes in venezela , i thought he was the big river in argentinia

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Umpqua is one of my favorites to say.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

i like it when they rhyme, like Rhein and Main or Drava and Sava. also, Olt. amazing name.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

There is a town called in Virginia called Tappahannock that is on the Rappahannock River

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Annisquam, Missisquoi, Winooski...

New England has some awesome rivers with indigenous names.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I’m a big fan of descriptive names like “Noisy Creek”, less of a fan of ones that imply raw gore used to be dump into it like “Slaughterhouse Creek”. Ojibwe names are some of my favorite because they add more variety than another river being called the “Red River” - Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'iganiiwi-ziibi. Monongahela River is a good one, and it combined with the Cheat River to displace my family decades ago- but they’re both v pretty. And the Cheat River always makes me think of this lil dude https://web.archive.org/web/20250225180312/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVDXd2upgL4

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The Yarra river is pretty neat

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

here we have maas / lek (leak) / ijssel / schelde / rijn / vecht (fight) and more

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The French Broad

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Susquehanna! Okavango! Yenisei!

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Este rio es me favoito.

¿Que rio, amigo?

El Rio Grande.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Wertach , Unstrut , Warnow are some germans i like , and Currently in the Media "the River Lonzo"

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