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New England has some awesome rivers with indigenous names.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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But Rubicon is really goated river name
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.
Big fan of the Dnieper. Always loved how it sounds.
Shenandoah is another good one, it has a good old and easy going feel, just like the river does
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.
Euphrates is another all time great. Especially when it comes paired with the Tigris
Orinoco, Paraná, Yangtze, Volga
If you don't think humans are good at naming rivers I gotta say, you're in de Nile
Cleveland is built on the Cuyahoga, which means "crooked river" because that shit is twisty as hell
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.
Gambia, the river so nice they named a country after it
Volga for sure makes the list
DON - DNEPR - JENISSEI - LENA - REKA PUR - TAS - ANGARA
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Seems like a good list of names to use for naming small starships
Danube!
The B kinda harshes me. Does anyone along the way use it? Donau, Duna, all prettier.
Orontes!
And then you have the Po, which is remarkable for how silly it looks and sounds.
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"
Its tributaries have nice names, too. Dora Riparia, Tanaro...
"river river" is an all-time classic
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.
We mostly have [name of city] River. We're not that creative.
Umpqua is one of my favorites to say.
There is a town called in Virginia called Tappahannock that is on the Rappahannock River
Susquehanna! Okavango! Yenisei!
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
THE ORINOCO is also a Banger !
edit. damn hes in venezela , i thought he was the big river in argentinia
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.
i like it when they rhyme, like Rhein and Main or Drava and Sava. also, Olt. amazing name.
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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here we have maas / lek (leak) / ijssel / schelde / rijn / vecht (fight) and more
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The Yarra river is pretty neat
Este rio es me favoito.
¿Que rio, amigo?
El Rio Grande.
Wertach , Unstrut , Warnow are some germans i like , and Currently in the Media "the River Lonzo"