List of rivers of the Americas

This is a list of rivers in 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

• Alsek - Canada/United States
• Apalachicola - United States
  • Chattahoochee - United States
  • Flint - United States
• Colorado - United States / Mexico
• Columbia - Canada/United States
  • Snake - United States
  • Okanagan - Canada/United States
  • Kettle - Canada
  • Pend Oreille - United States
  • Kootenay - Canada/United States
  • Canoe - Canada
  • Kicking Horse - Canada
• Dean - Canada
• Embudo River - United States
• Fraser - Canada
  • Pitt - Canada
  • Thompson - Canada
  • Chilcotin - Canada
  • Quesnel - Canada
  • Nechako - Canada
• Liard - Canada
• Mackenzie - Canada
  • Liard River – Canada
  • Slave - Canada
    • Peace - Canada
    • Athabasca – Canada
• Mississippi - United States
  • Missouri -United States
    • Yellowstone River –United States
    • Platte River –United States
    • Milk - Canada/United States
  • Ohio - United States
• Nass - Canada
• Rio Grande - Mexico/United States
• Sacramento - United States
  • Pit – United States
  • Feather -United States
• Saskatchewan - Canada
• Skagit - Canada/United States
• Skeena - Canada
  • Babine - Canada
  • Bulkley - Canada
  • Morice - Canada
  • Kitwanga - Canada
  • Zymoetz - Canada
• Squamish - Canada
• St. Johns - United States
• St. Lawrence - Canada/United States
  • Ottawa River - Canada
• Yukon - Canada/United States

Central America

See also: Rivers in Nicaragua

• Escondido - Nicaragua
• Grande de Matagalpa - Nicaragua
• Patuca - Honduras
• San Juan - Nicaragua
• Usumacinta - Mexico, Guatemala
• Cahabón - Guatemala
• Cahaboncito - Guatemala
• Lankin - Guatemala
• Nahualate - Guatemala
• Los Esclavos - Guatemala
• Rio Dulce - Guatemala
• Reventazón River - Costa Rica
• Tárcoles River - Costa Rica
• Tempisque River - Costa Rica

South America

• Aconcagua - Chile
• Amazon - Ecuador. Perú, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
  • Madeira - Brazil
  • Rio Negro - Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
  • Tocantins - Brazil
• Apure - Venezuela
• Atrato - Colombia
• Bío-Bío - Chile
  • Malleco - Chile
• Caroní - Venezuela
• Cautín - Chile
• Chubut - Argentina
• Colorado - Argentina
• Elqui - Chile
• Essequibo - Guyana
• Itata - Chile
  • Ñuble - Chile
• Loa - Chile
• Magdalena - Colombia
• Maipo - Chile
  • Mapocho - Chile
• Maule - Chile
  • Loncomilla - Chile
    • Achibueno - Chile
      • Ancoa - Chile
    • Longaví - Chile
    • Perquilauquén - Chile
      • Purapel - Chile
    • Putagán - Chile
  • Melado - Chile
• Maullín - Chile
• Maroni - Suriname, French Guiana
• Orinoco - Colombia, Venezuela
  • Apure - Venezuela
  • Arauca - Colombia, Venezuela
  • Meta - Colombia, Venezuela
  • Guaviare - Colombia
• Parnaiba - Brazil
• Rapel - Chile
• Reñihue - Chile
• Río Bueno - Chile
  • Rahue - Chile
    • Damas - Chile
• Río de la Plata It is not really a river but the lower stretch of the Paraná and the estuary that forms after its confluence with the Uruguay
  • Paraná - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
  • Uruguay - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
• Palena - Chile
• Petrohué - Chile
• Puelo - Chile
• São Francisco - Brazil
• Toltén - Chile
  • Trancura - Chile
• Valdivia - Chile
  • Calle-Calle - Chile
    • San Pedro - Chile
      • Enco - Chile
        • Llanquihue - Chile
          • Huahum - Chile, Argentina
            • Chapelco - Argentina
          • Liquiñe - Chile
  • Cau-Cau - Chile
  • Cruces - Chile
  • Cutipay - Chile
  • Futa - Chile
• Yelcho - Chile
  • Futaleufú - Chile

Related articles and lists

• geography
• List of tributaries of Hudson Bay
• List of rivers in Central America and the Caribbean
• List of rivers in the Great Basin
• List of rivers of the Americas by coastline
• List of rivers in the United States

See also

• Rivers of Europe
• Rivers of Asia
• Rivers of Africa
• Rivers of Australia
• Alphabetical list of Rivers in the World
• List of reference tables (lists other than rivers)