IN PICTURES: Scenes from the 5 longest rivers in the world.
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THE NILE (4,132 mi).
Fertile area along the Nile River. (CREDIT: CC)Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. (CREDIT: Mohamdriyd)Sunset along the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt. (CREDIT: CC)The great egret (Ardea alba), the common egret, great white egret. Luxor, Egypt. (CREDIT: Vyacheslav Argenberg)Living along the Nile RIver. (CREDIT: Krückstock)
THE AMAZON (4,000 mi).
Satellite image of the Amazon River. (CREDIT: Rex)Ferry along the Amazon. (CREDIT: Pontanegra)Arapaime gigas. (CREDIT: ちぐえ\)Sunset along the Amazon. (CREDIT: Peter Angritt)
YANGTZE RIVER (3,915 mi).
Satellite image of water moving through the gates of Three Gorges Dam. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens)Yangtze River in Congqin, China. (CREDIT: Boris Kasimov)One of three gorges on Yangtze river. (CREDIT: Photnart)Lidu Yangtze River Bridge (CREDIT: Glabb)
YELLOW RIVER (3,395 mi).
A rustic home sits next to the headwaters of the Yellow River (Huang He) in China. (CREDIT: Tenace10)Yellow River. (CREDIT: CC)Yellow River. (CREDIT: Laika ac)China’s Huang He (Yellow River) is the most sediment-filled river on Earth. Flowing northeast to the Bo Hai Sea from the Bayan Har Mountains, the Yellow River crosses a plateau blanketed with up to 300 meters (980 feet) of fine, wind-blown soil. (CREDIT: NASA)
PARANA RIVER (3,032 mi).
English: This astronaut photograph shows a 29-kilometre stretch of the Paraná, downstream of the small city of Goya, Argentina (just off the top left of the image). (CREDIT: NASA)Parana River (CREDIT: Falk2)View from the National Flag Monument in Rosario to the North. (CREDIT: Ermell)Public beach on the Paraná River, Rosario, Argentina, on an unusually warm winter afternoon. In the background, the Rosario-Victoria Bridge.
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