The is a river in
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. in length, it has a watershed of 689 km².
The river rises from
Mount Washiba
is a peak in the Hida Mountains range of the Japanese Alps at 2924m, located in Nagano Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is listed in 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.『日本百名山』深田久弥（著）、朝日新 ...
in the
Hida Mountains and carves the deep valley known as the
Kurobe Gorge
is a canyon near Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
The Kurobe Dam in Kurobe Gorge is one of highlights of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The area was designated the Chūbu-Sangaku National Park on December 4, 1934.
Geography Shimonorok ...
. It comes out of the mountains at
Unazuki and forms an
alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates, but a ...
which directly sinks into the
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...
.
Geography
Tributary
*Kuronagi River
References
External links
The Kurobe River and Pure Water
Rivers of Toyama Prefecture
Toyama (city)
Nyūzen, Toyama
Kurobe, Toyama
Rivers of Japan
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