Big River or Big Rivers may refer to:
Geography
Rivers
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Big River (Brodribb River, Victoria)
The Big River is a perennial stream, perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria.
Course and features
The Big River rises below Big Tree Hill withi ...
, a tributary of the Brodribb River, in Victoria
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Big River (Goulburn River, Victoria)
The Big River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands bioregion and Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victo ...
, a tributary of the Goulburn River, in Victoria
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Big River (Mitta Mitta River, Victoria)
The Big River, a perennial river of the North-East Murray River, Murray catchment of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the East Gippsland and Victorian Alps, Alpine regions of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It flows from the no ...
, a tributary of the Mitta Mitta River, in Victoria
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Big River (Buller), a tributary of the
Blackwater River (Little Grey River tributary)
The Blackwater River is located in the Buller District of New Zealand. It is the name given to the lower reaches of the Big River, from its junction with the Blackwater Creek to its outflow into the Māwheraiti (Little Grey) River. It flows gene ...
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Big River (Grey)
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Big River (Southland)
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Big River (Tasman)
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Big River (Alaska), a tributary of the
Kuskokwim River
The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River (Yup'ik: ''Kusquqvak''; Deg Xinag: ''Digenegh''; Upper Kuskokwim: ''Dichinanek' ''; russian: Кускоквим (''Kuskokvim'')) is a river, long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States. It is the ninth la ...
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Big River (California)
The Big River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 9, 2011 river in Mendocino County, California, that flows from the northern California Coast Range to the Paci ...
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Big River (Michigan)
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Big River (Missouri)
The Big River is a tributary of the Meramec River in east-central Missouri. The river rises in western Iron County near the summit of Johnson Mountain just north of Missouri Route 32 and approximately 3.5 miles southeast of the community of Enou ...
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Big River (New Hampshire)
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Big River (Oregon)
The Big River is a tributary of the Coast Fork Willamette River, approximately long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Calapooya Mountains south of Eugene.
It rises in northern Douglas County, northwest of Huckl ...
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Big River (Rhode Island)
The Big River is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows .U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 There are no dams along the river's length.
Course
Th ...
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Big River (Washington)
The Big River is a Big River on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington (U.S. state), Washington. A principal tributary of the Ozette River, the Big River originates in the northwestern Olympic Mountains and empties into the Ozette La ...
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Big River (Wisconsin)
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Big River (Saskatchewan)
Big River is a river in the west-central part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the boreal forest ecozone of Canada. The river begins at Witchekan Lake in the RM of Spiritwood No. 496 and heads in a north-easterly direction before e ...
, a river in Saskatchewan
Communities
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Big River, New Brunswick
Big River is a Canadian rural community in Gloucester County, New Brunswick. It is the northernmost community in the local service district of Big River, which had a population of 721 inhabitants in 2016.
History
Notable people
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Big River, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Rural Municipality of Big River No. 555
The Rural Municipality of Big River No. 555 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 16 and Division No. 5.
History
The RM of Big River No. 555 incorporated as ...
, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Big River, New Zealand, abandoned mining town on the West Coast
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Big River, California
Big River is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 1,327 at the 2010 census, up from 1,266 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Big River is located on the west bank of the Colorado River ...
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Mendocino, California
Mendocino (Spanish for "of Mendoza") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States. Mendocino is located south of Fort Bragg at an elevation of . The population of the CDP was 932 ...
, formerly Big River
Other places
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Big Rivers (wine), a grape-growing zone in New South Wales, Australia
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Big Rivers Region
Big or BIG may refer to:
* Big, of great size or degree
Film and television
* ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks
* '' Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show
* ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show present ...
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region of the Northern Territory, Australia
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Big Rivers Regional Trail
Big Rivers Regional Trail is a paved rail trail that overlooks the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers along the northern edge of Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It runs between the cities of Eagan and Lilydale.
The tr ...
, a rail trail in Dakota County, Minnesota, U.S.
Music
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''Big River'' (musical), a 1985 musical by Roger Miller based on Mark Twain's novel ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''
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''Big River'' (album), an album by Troy Cassar-Daley
* ''Big River'', an
album by Jimmy Nail
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"Big River" (Jimmy Nail song)
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"Big River" (Johnny Cash song)
* "Big River", a song by Van Halen from the album ''
A Different Kind of Truth
''A Different Kind of Truth'' is the twelfth and final studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on February 7, 2012, by Interscope Records, this is Van Halen's only studio album on Interscope and its first full-length album of stu ...
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Film and TV
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''Big River'' (film), a 2006 film featuring
Joe Odagiri
, better known by his stage name , is a Japanese actor and musician.
Personal life
Joe Odagiri was born in Tsuyama, Okayama prefecture. Though he was accepted by Kochi University, he turned it down for an opportunity to study in the United States ...
* "Big River", an
episode of the TV series ''Dora the Explorer''
Other uses
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Big Rivers Australian Football League
The Big Rivers Australian Football League (formerly the Katherine District Football League) is an Australian rules football competition in the Northern Territory, Australia based in the Katherine region.
Current clubs
Previous clubs
Premie ...
, an Australian rules football competition in the Northern Territory
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Big Rivers Conference, a high school athletic conference in Western Wisconsin
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Big Rivers Conference (Illinois), a high school football conference, 1999–2012
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...
(derived from Native American names meaning ''Big River''), the largest river system in North America
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Rio Grande
The Rio Grande ( and ), known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.
The length of the Rio G ...
(literal English translation: ''Big River''), a river that forms part of the MexicoUnited States border
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Guadalquivir
The Guadalquivir (, also , , ) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable from the Gulf ...
(derived from Arabic الوادي الكبير: ''Big River''), the fifth-longest river in Spain and most important in Andalusia
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