Hydrological, data for a better understanding of water

Rivers

GloRiC Global River Classification

River reach types from HydroRIVERS
Hydrologic, physio-climatic and geomorphic river classes

Rivers (Natural Earth) over Blue Marble (NASA GIBS)

Source: WWF / McGill
Resolution: Lines (HydroRIVERS reaches)
Time span: Static (v1.0)
Access type: Direct download (external)
Formats: Shapefile, File geodatabase
Coverage: Global land
Provider: www.hydrosheds.org/products/gloric

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/gloric/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

import requests

urls = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/gloric/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5").text.split()
for url in urls:
    name = url.rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r, open(name, "wb") as f:
        for chunk in r.iter_content(1 << 20):
            f.write(chunk)

const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/gloric/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));

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