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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Amazon

But Rubicon is really goated river name

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Volga for sure makes the list

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

:chefkiss

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Orinoco, Paraná, Yangtze, Volga

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

"river river" is an all-time classic

[-] uSSRI@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago
[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[-] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month 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"

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Umpqua is one of my favorites to say.

[-] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month 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

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

THE ORINOCO is also a Banger !

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

[-] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month 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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[-] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Annisquam, Missisquoi, Winooski...

New England has some awesome rivers with indigenous names.

[-] userofnames@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

The Yarra river is pretty neat

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago
[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Susquehanna! Okavango! Yenisei!

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

The French Broad

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Este rio es me favoito.

¿Que rio, amigo?

El Rio Grande.

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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