Misplaced Pages

Hida River

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Hida River" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
River in Japan
Hida River
The Hida River flowing through Gero
Native name飛騨川 (Japanese)
Location
CountryJapan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMount Norikura
 • elevation3,026 m (9,928 ft)
Mouth 
 • locationKiso River
Length148 km (92 mi)
Basin size2,170 km (840 sq mi)
Basin features
River systemKiso River

The Hida River (飛騨川, Hida-gawa) has its source in Mount Norikura (乗鞍岳 Norikura-ga-take) in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It flows from the northern to the southern section of the prefecture before emptying into the Kiso River in Minokamo.

River communities

The river passes through or forms the boundary of the communities listed below.

Gifu Prefecture
Takayama, Gero, Shirakawa (Ōno District), Yaotsu, Hichisō, Kawabe, Minokamo

References

External links

35°26′46″N 137°03′09″E / 35.446241°N 137.052444°E / 35.446241; 137.052444 (mouth)

Japan River systems and rivers of Japan
Rivers of Hokkaido
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Pacific Ocean
Rivers of Hokkaido on Commons
Rivers of Honshu
Tōhoku region
Kantō region
Chūbu region
Kansai region
Chūgoku region
Rivers of Shikoku
Rivers of Kyushu
Kyushu
Yaeyama Islands


Stub icon

This Gifu Prefecture location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article related to a river in Japan is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: