Muko River
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The is a river in the south-eastern part of
Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...
. This river was selected as the second most important river in the region by the prefecture governor. Its total length is 66 kilometers, and the drainage area is 496 square kilometers.


Description

The Muko River originates at in the Tanba Highland. It flows through the Sanda Basin, and creates the Mukogawa Keikoku Ravine between Sanda and Takarazuka. It continues into
Osaka Plain The refers to a 1,600 km² area of flat land, the largest plain in the Kinki region, including a large part of Osaka Prefecture and a southeastern portion of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is bordered on the north by the Hokusetsu Mount Range, on t ...
at Takarazuka, and flows in the Osaka Metropolitan Area to create the borders between Takarazuka and
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as well as between
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and
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. This river flows into
Osaka Bay Osaka Bay (大阪湾 ''Ōsaka-wan'' ) is a bay in western Japan. As an eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, it is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Kii Channel and from the neighbor western part of the Inland Sea by the Akashi Strait. ...
, and was used to transport the
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of
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from the in
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of
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during the
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.


Major tributaries

* Aonogawa River in Sasayama * Arimagawa River in
Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...
and Nishinomiya * Arinogawa River in Kobe * Hatsukagawa River in
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, Sanda, Takarazuka and Kobe * Sakasegawa River in Takarazuka *
Nigawa River is a district along the Nigawa (river), which flows along the border of Takarazuka and Nishinomiya, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Outline Nigawa is one of the districts developed in the early stages of the development of the area along the ...
in Takarazuka *
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in Nishinomiya


References

Rivers of Hyōgo Prefecture Rivers of Japan {{Japan-river-stub