Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu River
is a Class A river in Hokkaidō, Japan. It flows through Hiyama District, and empties into the Sea of Japan. It is the only Class A river in Southern Hokkaidō, and thus is considered to be extremely important for agriculture and flood control. The river has been voted the "Cleanest River in Japan" by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) 10 times between 1987 and 2006. Geography The Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu river originates from the ridge between Mount Taihei and Mount Oshamambe-dake. Its catchment area is and its stream length is . The river flows through Imakane, Setana. and Kitahiyama, Hokkaido. Climate The basin is located at the northern limit of the temperate climate and is relatively warm due to the influence of the Tsushima Current moving northward across the Sea of Japan. Origin of name The name ''Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu'' was formed by adding the word ''Shiribeshi'' to distinguish the river from the Toshibetsu River in Tokachi Su ...
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The International System of Units, known by the international abbreviation SI in all languages and sometimes pleonastically as the SI system, is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Established and maintained by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), it is the only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology, industry, and everyday commerce. The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length), kilogram (kg, mass), ampere (A, electric current), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature), mole (mol, amount of substance), and candela (cd, luminous intensity). The system can accommodate coherent units for an unlimited number of additional quantities. These are called coherent derived units, which can always be represented as products ...
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