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, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses.

Rivers flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United ...

Río Bravo 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 ...

, the name of the Rio Grande in Mexico ** San Juan River *** Pesquería River **** Salinas River ** Salado River *** Sabinas Hidalgo River *** Candela River *** Sabinas River **

Conchos River The Río Conchos (Conchos River) is a large river in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It joins the Río Bravo del Norte (known in the United States as the Rio Grande) at the town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Description The Rio Conchos is the main riv ...

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Sacramento River The Sacramento River ( es, Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for before reaching the Sacramento� ...

*** San Pedro River *** Florida River **** Parral River *** Balleza River (San Juan River) * San Fernando River (Conchos River) * Soto La Marina River (Santander River) ** Purificación River *

Pánuco River The Pánuco River ( es, Río Pánuco, ), also known as the ''Río de Canoas'', is a river in Mexico fed by several tributaries including the Moctezuma River and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. The river is approximately long and passes throu ...

Tamesí River The Tamesí River is a river in northeast Mexico. It is a part of the Pánuco River basin, in which it converges about 16 km from its mouth in the Barra de Tampico, in the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocea ...

(Guayalejo River) ** Chicayán River ** Santa Maria River (Tamuín River) (Tampoán River) *** Río Verde **

Moctezuma River The Moctezuma River (Río Moctezuma) is a river in Mexico that drains the eastern side of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Sierra Nevada). It is a tributary of the Pánuco River and flows through the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, and Sa ...

*** Tempoal River *** Amajac River *** Extoraz River ***

Tula River The Tula River ( es, Río Tula) is a river in Hidalgo State in central Mexico, and a tributary of the Moctezuma River. Geography It runs through the city of Tula de Allende and begins as a drainage channel for the Valley of Mexico, which contai ...

* Tuxpan Ver (Tuxpan River) **

Pantepec River The Pantepec River is a river of Mexico that belongs to the Tuxpan River basin, on the Gulf of Mexico slope. The Pantepec River is considered the upper course of the Tuxpan River. The Pantepec River begins in the mountains of the state of Hidalg ...

Vinazco River The Vinazco River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico References

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Cazones River The Cazones River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers flowing int ...

Tecolutla River The Tecolutla River is a river in the state of Veracruz in Mexico, and the main drainage of the historical and cultural region of Totonacapan. It is principally fed by four rivers that rise in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: from north to south, they ...

Necaxa River The Necaxa River (''Río Necaxa'') is one of the main rivers of the Mexican state of Puebla. It is a tributary of the Tecolutla River. Beginning south of Huauchinango with the name Totolapa, it runs through tall mountains and deep canyons of the ...

Nautla River The Nautla River is a river of Mexico. The River rises on the northern slope of Cofre de Perote volcano, and flows northeastwards to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. The Bobos River is a tributary. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a lis ...

** Bobos River *

Actopan River The Actopan River is a river of Mexico that reaches the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate name ...

Antigua River The Antigua River is a river of Mexico. It has an area of 108 square miles. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given ...

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Jamapa River The Río Jamapa is located in the Mexican state of Veracruz, forming in Citlaltépetl (also known as Pico de Orizaba) and pouring into the Gulf of Mexico in the municipality of Boca del Río (Mouth of the River). See also *List of longest rive ...

** Cotaxtla River (Atoyac River) * Blanco River (Río Blanco) *

Papaloapan River The Papaloapan River () is one of the main rivers of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Its name comes from the Nahuatl ''papaloapan'' meaning "river of the butterflies". In 1517, Juan de Grijalva's expedition spotted the river, naming it Río de Alva ...

** San Juan River ***

Lalana River The Lalana River is a river of Oaxaca and Veracruz states of Mexico. It originates in the Sierra de Villa Alta sub-range of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca, and flows northeastwards onto the Gulf Coastal Plain, where it joins the Trinidad R ...

*** Trinidad River ** Tesechoacan River *** Playa Vicente River ** Tonto River *** Amapa River ** Santo Domingo River *** Salado River (Zapotitlán River) ***

Río 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 ...

** Valle Nacional River * Coatzacoalcos River **

Uspanapa River The Uspanapa River, also known as the Uxpanapa or Uzpanapa, is a river of Mexico. It originates in the foothills of Sierra Atravesada subrange of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains in the state of Oaxaca. It flows through the Selva Zoque and ...

(Uxpanapa River) ** Jaltepec River ** Sarabia River **

El Corte River El Corte River (in Spanish ''Río El Corte'', meaning "The Cut River") is the primary tributary of the Coatzacoalcos River, flowing through the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz to the Gulf of Mexico. Geography The river originates in the mou ...

* Tonalá River (Pedregal River) *

Grijalva River Grijalva River, formerly known as ''Tabasco River'', ( es, Río Grijalva, known locally also as Río Grande de Chiapas, Río Grande and Mezcalapa River) is a long river in southeastern Mexico."Grijalva." ''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Diction ...

(Tabasco River) (Río Chiapa) **

Usumacinta River The Usumacinta River (; named after the howler monkey) is a river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala. It is formed by the junction of the Pasión River, which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala) and the Salinas ...

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San Pedro y San Pablo River The San Pedro y San Pablo River is a river of Mexico. It is a distributary of the Usumacinta River. It branches from the lower Usumacinta and flows northwards, emptying into Atasta and Pom lagoons which are connected to Laguna de Términos, which ...

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Palizada River The Palizada River is a river in Mexico. It is a distributary of the Usumacinta River. It branches from the lower Usumacinta and flows northeastwards, emptying into a complex of lagoons (Viejo, Santa Gertrudis, and El Vapor) connected to Laguna de ...

(distributary) *** San Pedro River ***

Lacantún River The Lacantún River is a river in Chiapas state of southern Mexico. It is a tributuary of the Usumacinta River. The Lacantún originates in the Chiapas Highlands, and runs southeastwards nearly to the Guatemalan border, where it turns northeastwar ...

**** Jataté River **** Tzaconejá River *** Salinas River (Chixoy River) ** Tulija River ** Chilapa River ** Tacotalpa River *** Teapa River ** La Venta River *** Encajonado River ** Suchiapa River ** Santo Domingo River **

Cuilco River Río Cuilco is a river in Guatemala. The river's sources are located in the Sierra Madre just north of Cajolá where it is called Río Blanco. The Río Blanco joins the Las Manzanas River which in turn joins the San Isidro River to form the Cu ...

* Chumpan River * Candelaria River ** Mamantel River *

Champotón River The Champotón River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers flowing ...

* Hondo River ** Blue Creek

Rivers flowing into the
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...

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** Las Palmas River * San Vicente River *

San Antonio River The San Antonio River is a major waterway that originates in central Texas in a cluster of springs in midtown San Antonio, about 4 miles north of downtown, and follows a roughly southeastern path through the state. It eventually feeds into the ...

* Del Rosario River * San Andres River * Soledad River * Arroyo Salado River *

Colorado River The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. s ...

Hardy River The Hardy River ( es, Río Hardy) is a -long Mexican river formed by residual agricultural waters from the Mexicali Valley, and running into the Colorado River. The river is believed to have been an ancient channel of the Colorado, as well as the ...

**'' Gila River'' *** Santa Cruz River *** San Pedro River * Sonoyta River * Concepción River (Magdalena River) ** Altar River *

Sonora River Río Sonora (''Sonora River'') is a 402-kilometer-long river of Mexico. It lies on the Pacific slope of the Mexican state of Sonora and it runs into the Gulf of California. Watershed The Sonora River watershed covers of public land. Slopes range ...

** San Miguel River (Horcasitas River) *

Mátape River The Mátape River is a river in Sonora, Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers fl ...

(Malapo River) *

Yaqui River The Yaqui River (Río Yaqui in Spanish) (Hiak Vatwe in the Yaqui or Yoreme language) is a river in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico. It was formerly known as the Rio del Norte. Being the largest river system in the state of Sonora, th ...

Sahuaripa River The Sahuaripa River is a river of Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to ...

Bavispe River The Rio Bavispe or Bavispe River is a river in Mexico which flows briefly north then mainly south by southwest until it joins with the Aros River to become the Yaqui River, eventually joining the Gulf of California. History Historically, the Rio ...

(Bavisque River) *** Rio San Bernardino **** Rio Fronteras ***** Rio Agua Prieta **** Arroyo Cajón Bonito **

Aros River The Aros River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers flowing into t ...

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Mulatos River The Mulatos River is a river of Urabá Antioquia, Colombia. It drains into the Caribbean Sea. See also *List of rivers of Colombia Atlantic Ocean Amazon River Basin * Amazon River ** Guainía River or Negro River *** Vaupés River or Uaup ...

*** Tutuaca River *** Sirupa River **** Tomochic River **** Papigochic River * Mayo River *

Fuerte River The Fuerte River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico. It flows from headwaters in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California. Course It begins at the junction of the Rio Verde (also called ...

Rio Cuchujaqui Rio Cuchujaqui, Arroyo Cuchujaqui or Arroyo de Alamos, is a tributary river of the Fuerte River, in the Álamos Municipality of Sonora and in El Fuerte Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico. It has its source in the Sierra de Álamos a range in the Sier ...

** Choix River ** Río Verde, a.k.a. San Miguel River, Sinforeza River *** Urique River **** San Ignacio River, a.k.a. Recowata River *** Batopilas River ** Chínipas River *** Septentrion River **** Cerocahui River *** Oteros River **** Uruachi River *** Tepochique River **** Mochomo River ***** Huachajuri River ****** Arroyo Monterde * Sinaloa River (Mohinora River) *

Culiacán River The Culiacán River is a river that is formed at the confluence of the Tamazula River and Humaya River, located in Culiacán city of Sinaloa state, in northwestern Mexico. The river flows from the Sierra Madre Occidental headwaters confluence ...

Humaya River The Humaya River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, that connects to the Tamazula River in the city of Culiacán to form the Culiacán River. The source of the river is the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. The water flows from the no ...

Tamazula River The Tamazula River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, originating in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, flowing westward towards the Pacific Ocean. The Tamazula receives the Humaya River in the city of Culiacán Culiacán, off ...

San Lorenzo River The San Lorenzo River is a long river whose headwaters originate in Castle Rock State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flow south by southeast through the San Lorenzo Valley before passing through Santa Cruz and emptying into Monterey Ba ...

* Piaxtla River ** Elota River * Presidio River * Baluarte River * Teacapan Estuary **

Acaponeta River The Acaponeta River originates in the State of Durango, México and drains into the Pacific Ocean. The river basin covers . From its beginning in Durango to where it crosses into Nayarit, the river is called Quebrada de San Bartolo; farther dow ...

* Río San Pedro Mezquital **

Animas River Animas River (''On-e-mas''; es, Río de las Ánimas) is a river in the western United States, a tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River System. The Animas-La Plata Water Project was completed in 2015. The project pumps w ...

Río Grande de Santiago The Río Grande de Santiago, or Santiago River, is a river in western Mexico. It flows westwards from Lake Chapala via Ocotlán through the states of Jalisco and Nayarit to empty into the Pacific Ocean. It one of the longest rivers in Mexico, ...

** Mololoa River ** Huaynamota River (Jesús María River) ***

Atengo River The Atengo River, also known as the Chapalagana River, is a river of Mexico. It is a tributary of the Huaynamota River in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental.Alvarado-Hernández, Leticia & Ibáñez-Castillo, Laura & Ruiz Garcia, Agustin & Gonzál ...

(Chapalagana River) **** Huajimic River **** Camotlán River **

Bolaños River The Bolaños River is a river in Mexico flowing through the Sierra Madre Occidental, and a tributary of Rio Grande de Santiago. It has a length of 360 km and a watershed of about 10 000 square kilometers. Geography The river's origin is in ...

*** Colotlán River **** Jerez River *** Mezquitic River **

Juchipila River The Juchipila River is a river of Mexico. It is a tributary of the Río Grande de Santiago. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for ...

*** Calvillo River ** Río Verde (Río San Pedro) *** Los Lagos River ** Calderón River **

Lake Chapala Lake Chapala ( es, Lago de Chapala, ) is Mexico's largest freshwater lake. It lies in the municipalities of Ocotlán, Chapala, Jocotepec, Poncitlán, and Jamay, in Jalisco, and in Venustiano Carranza and Cojumatlán de Régules, in Mich ...

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Lerma River The Lerma River ( es, Río Lerma) is Mexico's second longest river. It is a river in west-central Mexico that begins in Mexican Plateau at an altitude over above sea level, and ends where it empties into Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake, nea ...

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Turbio River The Turbio River (or Rio Turbio in Spanish) rises in a mountainous region of the Argentine Andes and discharges to the Última Esperanza Sound in Chile. Río Turbio headwaters are in a part of the Andes where there is no central valley, or gap be ...

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Guanajuato River The Guanajuato's River ( es, Rio Guanajuato) is a tributary of the Lerma River in the central near region of Mexico called the Bajio (Lowlands). The river begins in the silver-rich Guanajuato mountains near the state capital of Guanajuato City. The ...

**** Apaseo River ***** Laja River *** Zula River ***

Huaracha River The Huaracha River (Spanish: Río Huaracha) is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parent ...

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Duero River The Douro (, , ; es, Duero ; la, Durius) is the highest-flow river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province, central Spain, meanders south briefly then flows generally west through the north-west part of ...

Ameca River The Ameca River ( es, Río Ameca) is a river of some in length in western Mexico. It rises in the Bosque de la Primavera in Jalisco, 23 km to the west of state capital Guadalajara; flows through the city of Ameca; and then forms the ...

** Mascota River **

Atenguillo River The Atenguillo River is a river of Jalisco, Mexico. It is a northward-flowing tributary of the Ameca River See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alte ...

** Remus River * Tomatlán River * San Nicolás River * Purificación River * Chacala River (Cihuatlán River) *

Armería River The Armería River is a river in western Mexico. It originates in central Jalisco, and flows southward through Jalisco and Colima to empty into the Pacific Ocean. See also *List of rivers of Mexico *List of rivers of the Americas by coastline ...

(Ayuquila River) (Ayutla River) * Tuxpan River (Coahuayana River) * Coalcomán River * Aguililla River *

Balsas River The Balsas River (Spanish Río Balsas, also locally known as the Mezcala River, or Atoyac River) is a major river of south-central Mexico. The basin flows through the states of Guerrero, México, Morelos, and Puebla. Downstream of Ciudad Alta ...

(Mezcala River) (Atoyac River) ** Tepalcatepec River (Río Grande) *** Cupatitzio River (Del Marques River) ** Río del Oro ** Cutzamala River *** Ixtapan River *** Temascaltepec River *** Bejucos River **

Amacuzac River The Amacuzac River is located in Morelos, Mexico and it is the most important river of this state being approximately 60 km long. It originates in the slopes of Nevado de Toluca and empties southwards into the Balsas River. It bisects the Si ...

*** Yautepec River ** Tlapaneco River ** Nexapa River ** Mixteco River *** Acatlán River ** San Martín River ** Zahuapan River * Atoyac River * Papagayo River ** Omitlán River * Ometepec River ** Quetzala River * Río Verde ** Atoyac River **

Atoyaquillo River The Atoyaquillo River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers flowing ...

(Putla River) * Colotepec River * Copalita River *

Tehuantepec River The Tehuantepec River is a river in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Tehuantepec flows into the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The mountainous terrain of the region it occupies allows for no navigable rivers; ins ...

(Quiechapa River) ** Tequisistlán River * Suchiate River

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Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough that stretches to the Gulf ...

'' in California ** New River (Río Nuevo) * Guzmán Basin in northern Chihuahua ** Casas Grandes River ** Santa Maria River **

Carmen River The Carmen River is a river of Mexico. See also *List of rivers of Mexico This is a list of rivers of Mexico, listed from north to south. There are 246 rivers on this list. Alternate names for rivers are given in parentheses. Rivers flowing into ...

(Santa Clara River) *

Bolsón de Mapimí The Bolsón de Mapimí is an endorheic, or internal drainage, basin in which no rivers or streams drain to the sea, but rather toward the center of the basin, often terminating in Swamp, swamps and Ephemeral lake, ephemeral lakes. It is located in ...

Aguanaval River The Aguanaval River is a river located in northeastern Mexico. Geography It originates in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental range of Zacatecas state, and flows generally north through Zacatecas and Durango states to empty into the endorheic B ...

*** Trujillo River **

Nazas River The Nazas River is a river located in northern Mexico, in the states of Coahuila and Durango. It is part of the endorheic Bolsón de Mapimí. It is only long, but irrigates an area of in the middle of the desert. The Nazas is also nurtured by t ...

(Río del Oro) *** Sextín River ***Ramos River (Santiago River) **** Tepehuanes River

References

Atlas of Mexico, 1975
*The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984. *National Geographic Atlas of the World, 1992. *Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. *The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000.
MSN Encarta World Atlas, 2008
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